iRead: Let's Talk Race for Teens & Adults

iRead features the best ebooks and eaudiobooks for children and teens curated by the Children’s Room and Teen Center staff.

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

available as an eaudiobook on Hoopla

“When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself.” If I wasn’t gonna fight for me, who else was?”

A powerful and personal examination of growing up black and queer in America. This memoir by activist and award-winning journalist George M. Johnson follows his life from childhood to adolescence to college as he grows to understand his identity. Johnson encourages readers to question gender conformity and infuses honesty and heart in each story. His testimony covers topics such as racism, toxic masculinity, sexual and physical assault, trauma, and more while highlighting the joys of his family, paths to healing, and supportive friendships.

March: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin | illustrated by Nate Powell

available as an ebook through Hoopla

Congressman John Lewis’s autobiographical comic spans from his modest upbringing in rural Alabama preaching to chickens and sneaking out for an education all the way to the first inauguration of Barack Obama. Along the way, he learns of the civil rights movement, joins pacifist demonstrations, and confronts violent police during the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This trilogy is an excellent example of how to, as Lewis says, “make good trouble.”

2016 National Book Award Winner
2017 Printz Award Winner
2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
2017 Sibert Informational Book Medal

March: Book Two by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin | illustrated by Nate Powell

available as an ebook through Hoopla

March: Book Three by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin | illustrated by Nate Powell

available as an ebook through Hoopla

Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore

available as an eaudiobook on Overdrive

American Library Association Popular Paperback For Young Adults

A story of two men who share one name- what leads one to become a Rhodes scholar and White House Fellow, while the other serves a life sentence in prison?  Moore explores the circumstances of his own choices in contrast and counterpart to the ‘other’ Moore’s experiences, infusing both tales with compassion and inspiration.

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