Help your young readers learn about social justice, advocacy, and real-world issues through text they can understand with this selection of books and series from our premier publishing partners. As they come to respect and appreciate what makes us all unique, they will discover the importance of standing up for themselves and each other.
Audience: Educators and Leadership
Create a student-centered learning environment where everyone in your school community is seen, supported, and empowered with this vital collection that dismantles bias while reclaiming authenticity for readers.
Audience: All Ages
Nurturing kindness through reading strengthens diversity efforts and creates a more supportive and equitable society for all. These books will help start a discussion and promote empathy, understanding, and compassion.
Audience: All Ages
This children’s book imprint offers a wide range of innovative and unexpected stories by Native creators, informed and inspired by lived experience, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes.
Audience: Lower Elementary
Through charming illustrations and simple, expressive text, this sweet series features a diverse group of moms and grandmas from various backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States, perfect for families looking to embrace both English and Spanish!
Audience: Lower Elementary
The World Needs the Wonder You See is a beautiful follow-up to The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be that encourages children and families to unplug, slow down, and delight in the nature and wonder all around them using their amazing imaginations.
Audience: Lower Elementary
The Own Voices, Own Stories Award recognizes books written by new authors from historically marginalized groups. By recognizing and amplifying diverse voices with underrepresented perspectives, Cherry Lake Publishing hopes to help reflect authentic experiences back to the children and families who share them – and to their readers at large.
Audience: Upper Elementary
Moving from the city to the country is hard enough, but having to make friends at a new school is a big job for brothers Jonah and Peter. On top of it all, Jonah’s worried about Peter being teased. To help aid in reading comprehension, each book in this set includes guiding questions.
Audience: Lower Elementary
In this series, tightly controlled vocabulary, repetitive text patterns, labeled illustrations, and crisp, colorful photographs work together to create an engaging and supportive reading experience for teaching students why and how these holidays are celebrated.
Audience: Lower Elementary
Fossil records show that the first humans were born in Africa, meaning, every person on Earth can trace their ancestry back to that continent. This title celebrates our shared ancestors’ ingenuity and achievements and imagines what these firsts would have looked and felt like.
Audience: Lower Elementary
Through stunning art, readers will discover a tale of strength and resilience and the unwavering love between father and daughter through a picture book, as well as the fact that we are all part of something bigger and greater in another.
Audience: Lower Elementary
This title, which earned a starred review from School Library Journal, leads young readers on a journey alongside protagonist Imani and her magical hair! Created by librarian and author Cicely Lewis to reflect the diversity of the world, readers will come away from this book knowing they are special and worthy.
Audience: Lower Elementary
These titles enable young learners to read in their own language, explore others, and support diversity and multiculturalism with 18 eBooks in 18 languages. Readers can easily switch between languages with a simple click and watch as each page is fully translated into another language!
Audience: Lower Elementary
Everybody’s favorite spunky third-grader returns in the long-awaited fifth installment of the award-winning Dyamonde Daniel series! Author Nikki Grimes once again guides readers both familiar with and new through Dyamonde's story, this time coming to the root cause of strains in a once indestructible friendship.
Audience: Upper Elementary
What does it mean to be the “greatest of all time,” or the GOAT? These inspirational stories of hard work, dedication, and accomplishment explore the concept while being written with struggling and reluctant readers in mind.
Audience: Upper Elementary
This series introduces young readers to the first people who made North America their homeland. Each book covers the history of one Native American nation or tribe up to current times. The books include topics such as homeland, food, clothing, crafts, family, traditions, war, and contact with Europeans.
Audience: Upper Elementary
People grow up in all kinds of families, which all have their own dynamics, challenges, and perspectives. This series describes several types of families and offers young readers ways of processing their families’ experiences and accepting their classmates’ situations.
Audience: Upper Elementary
This illustrated nonfiction book teaches middle 15grade readers all about Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old enslaved boy from Réunion Island who made history when he discovered how to hand-pollinate vanilla plants and created a way to bring vanilla to the world.
Audience: Middle School
Filled with sparkling magic, honest explorations of grief, and moving depictions of a new friendship, this book from acclaimed author Camryn Garrett asks readers to remember a history that’s often overlooked and imagine a future where we’re brave enough to embrace change.
Audience: Middle School
This middle grade nonfiction series tells the true history of America from the perspective of different communities while correcting common falsehoods and celebrating underrepresented heroes and achievements, encouraging readers to ask questions and approach information thoughtfully.
Audience: Middle School
From author Dusti Bowling comes a standalone novel about Connor, Aven Green’s best friend in Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, as he tells his own story in this poignant and heartwarming tale about overcoming the challenges of life with Tourette’s (and a new high school).