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Books About Justice & Fairness for Ages 8–11 – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Books About Justice & Fairness for Ages 8–11

Justice at chapter book age starts to look like the real world: complicated, imperfect, and worth fighting for anyway. These 7,685 books introduce children to systemic unfairness, historical injustice, and the people who stood up against it, without simplifying any of it.

7,685 books

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Scholastic First Biographies

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For the young child asking why things are sometimes unfair or why we celebrate MLK Day. This simple biography introduces

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Influential People

For the child who wonders if one person can really make a difference, this biography shows how a young girl's frustratio

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Primary Source Detectives

Who Marched for Civil Rights?

Richard Spilsbury

For the student curious about how ordinary people change the world, this guide uses primary sources to explore the brave

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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Born into slavery, Bass Reeves fought his way to freedom and became one of the most feared and respected deputy U.S. Mar

Ages 8–12

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A Picture Book Biography #15

A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth

Born into slavery, Sojourner Truth used her powerful voice to become a legendary crusader for abolition and civil rights

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Snapshots in History

Freedom Rides: Campaign for Equality

For the student curious about how ordinary people changed the world. This look at the 1961 Freedom Rides highlights the

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What Is the AIDS Crisis?

For the curious middle grader asking about LGBTQ history or health, this book explains the AIDS crisis through the lens

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Kid Blink Beats the World

For the child who feels small in a world of big rules: discover how a group of kids changed history by standing together

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Ida B. Wells Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Dennis Brindell Fradin, Judith Bloom Fradin

Letters, photographs, and powerful speeches reveal how Ida B. Wells fought against injustice and helped lead the way for

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Above the Rim How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball

For the child who loves sports but needs to understand how heroes are made off the court through courage and quiet stren

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Building Blocks of the Civil Rights Movement

School in the Civil Rights Movement

Rachel A. Koestler-Grack

For the child curious about history and justice, this book explains how brave students changed the world just by going t

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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Four friends sit at a Woolworth's lunch counter and order coffee, sparking a peaceful movement for equality that changed

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Come All You Brave Soldiers Blacks in the Revolutionary War

Thousands of Black men fought for American independence while facing their own struggles for liberty in this vital histo

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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

Young people at the heart of the 1950s and 60s Civil Rights movement share their personal accounts of courage and activi

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Winnie must decide what kind of person she wants to be when a Black family moves into her white neighborhood and challen

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Go With the Flow #1

Go With the Flow

Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann

Frustrated by their school's lack of basic health supplies, four friends launch a period revolution while juggling track

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Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box

Michael S. Bandy, Eric Stein

For children processing the concept of fairness and systemic injustice, this story follows a grandfather's dignity while

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Houghton Mifflin Leveled Readers

Marian Wright Edelman: For Every Child

Laura Wingfield

For the child curious about how one person can change the world for others. This introduction to Marian Wright Edelman s

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The Logan Family Saga #5

Mississippi Bridge

Mildred D. Taylor

A ten-year-old boy watches from the sidelines as a bus driver forces Black passengers off a crowded bus during a dangero

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Show Me a Sign #2

Ann Clare LeZotte

For the child exploring how everyone deserves a voice. A young Deaf teacher fights to free a student from isolation and

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Biography from A to Z

Malcolm X: Force for Change

Kristin Thoennes Keller

For children beginning to ask about fairness and history, this accessible biography introduces the life and evolution of

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When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders

J. Patrick Lewis

For the child curious about why the world looks the way it does: these poems celebrate the brave people who stood up for

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Scholastic Biography

Rosa Parks: From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement

For the child curious about standing up for what is right. Discover the courage of Rosa Parks and how one quiet act of d

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You Choose: Interactive History Adventures

The Japanese American Internment

History comes alive through choices that reveal the daily realities of Japanese American internment during World War II

Justice & Fairness for Other Ages

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