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Middle Grade About Experiencing Racism – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Middle Grade About Experiencing Racism

Explore middle grade books about experiencing racism for children.

32 books

Cover of Out of Shadows

For the teen processing the weight of systemic injustice. A stark look at a boy navigating racial tensions and moral cho

Cover of This Is My America

This Is My America

With her father on death row and her brother now a fugitive, Tracy Beaumont fights to uncover the racist secrets of her

Cover of This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

These twenty essential lessons provide the vocabulary and tools needed to understand true history, confront injustice, a

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The Door of No Return

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Donald Duk

Frank Chin

Twelve-year-old Donald Duk navigates San Francisco's Chinatown on Chinese New Year while wrestling with his name and his

Ages 11–15

Cover of Fast Pitch

Shenice Lockwood is determined to lead her softball team to victory, but a family secret about an old crime threatens to

Cover of Black Star

The Door of No Return #2

Kwame Alexander

Charley dreams of being a professional pitcher in the 1920s South. To find her way, she must uncover family secrets and

Cover of The Parker Inheritance

The Parker Inheritance

A mysterious letter found in an old attic sends Candice and Brandon on a hunt for hidden treasure to clear her grandmoth

Cover of Echo

Pam Muñoz Ryan

A single harmonica travels through time and across borders, connecting three children facing family crises through a mys

Cover of Will's Race for Home

Will's Race for Home

Jewell Parker Rhodes

In 1889, Will and his father race from Texas to Oklahoma, braving bandits and rough terrain to finally claim a piece of

Cover of How to Find What You're Not Looking For

How to Find What You're Not Looking For

Veera Hiranandani

In the wake of the 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling, twelve-year-old Ariel navigates family secrets and social change whil

Cover of Miles Morales

Miles Morales #1

Suspended from school and questioning his identity, Miles Morales must save his neighborhood when he uncovers a plot tha

Cover of Ashes

Seeds of America #3

Laurie Halse Anderson

Isabel and Curzon risk everything to march through a war-torn landscape in a desperate search for a sister enslaved in t

Cover of Autumn Street

With her father away at war, Elizabeth moves to her grandfather's home and begins to see the complicated, sometimes hars

Cover of The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

A family trip from Michigan to Alabama in the summer of 1963 changes the Watsons forever as they face the realities of t

Cover of Wishtree

Katherine Applegate

An old oak tree named Red has spent centuries listening to people’s secrets, but now he must speak up to protect a new f

Cover of Becoming Muhammad Ali

Becoming Muhammad Ali

James Patterson, Kwame Alexander

Cassius Clay was just a kid in Louisville facing school struggles and racism before a stolen bike led him to the boxing

Cover of Behind You

If You Come Softly #2

Jacqueline Woodson

Miah watches from beyond as his mother, his friends, and his girlfriend Ellie struggle to find a way forward after his t

Cover of Blended

Sharon M. Draper

Between two homes and two heritages, eleven-year-old Isabella searches for her identity as family changes and racial ten

Cover of My Name is Not Angelica

My Name is Not Angelica

A young Senegalese girl is brought to the Caribbean in 1733, where she must find the strength to join a historic slave r

Cover of Heroes

Frank and Stanley are dreaming of comic books at Pearl Harbor until the bombs start falling, forcing their friendship to

Cover of Clean Getaway

This book, is a great book. I feel like all children from grade 3-9 should read this book because it talks about the pas

Cover of The Door of No Return

The Door of No Return #1

The Door of No Return

Kwame Alexander

An Asante boy’s life is forever changed when he is stolen from his nineteenth-century village in this powerful story tol

Cover of Sounder

William H. Armstrong

After his father is jailed, a young boy finds solace in his dog, Sounder, and discovers a new sense of hope through the

Cover of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

The Logan Family Saga #4

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

Cassie Logan learns that her family's connection to their land is the source of their pride and strength as they face ra

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