The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Adapted for Young People) Mother Jones: Labor Leader Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano March Forward, Girl This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes 42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery Take a Seat -- Make a Stand: A Hero in the Family: The Story of Sarah Key Evans, a Civil Rights Hero Who Would Not Be Moved Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
Che: A Graphic Biography Rosa Parks: My Story Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson Mordechai Anielewicz: No to Despair Anna Politkovskaya: No to Fear Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition): The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Zora and Me Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Young Readers) The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights Betty Before X The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

Biographies: Middle School

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By Social Justice Books of Teaching for Change

Biographies: Middle School

This list includes both non-fiction biographies and those told in story format. Also see biographies for early elementary, upper elementary, and young adults. For collections of biographies, see our Changemakers booklist.

Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life

Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life

Jerry Pinkney

$17.99
$16.73
History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes

History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights...

Tracey Baptiste and Shauna J. Grant

$19.99
$18.59
Mordechai Anielewicz: No to Despair

Mordechai Anielewicz: No to Despair

Rachel Hausfater

$14.95
$13.90
Anna Politkovskaya: No to Fear

Anna Politkovskaya: No to Fear

Dominique Conil

$14.95
$13.90
Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist

Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil...

Terry Catasús Jennings, Rosita Stevens-Holsey, et al.

$18.99
$17.66
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

Margarita Engle

$7.99
$7.43
March Forward, Girl

March Forward, Girl

Melba Pattillo Beals and Frank Morrison

$7.99
$7.43
This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for...

Debbie Levy and Jo Ann Allen Boyce

$17.99
$16.73
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose

$12.99
$12.08
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery

Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's...

Winifred Conkling

$10.95
Take a Seat -- Make a Stand: A Hero in the Family: The Story of Sarah Key Evans, a Civil Rights Hero Who Would Not Be Moved

Take a Seat -- Make a Stand: A Hero in the Family: The Story...

Amy Nathan

$11.95
$11.11
Che: A Graphic Biography

Che: A Graphic Biography

Spain Rodriguez

$15.95
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Young Readers)

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg...

Shana Knizhnik and Irin Carmon

$17.99
$16.73
Zora and Me

Zora and Me

T. R. Simon and Victoria Bond

$8.99
$8.36
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil...

Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

$10.99
$10.22
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

Michelle Y Green and Kadir Nelson

$6.99
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition

Bryan Mealer, William Kamkwamba, et al.

$9.99
$9.29
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha...

Kathleen Van Cleve and Erica Armstrong Dunbar

$19.99
$18.59
Mother Jones: Labor Leader

Mother Jones: Labor Leader

Connie Colwell Miller, Charles Barnett III, et al.

$8.10
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano

The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano

Margarita Engle and Sean Qualls

$10.99
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl

Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl

Tonya Bolden

$9.94
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

James Sturm and Rich Tommaso

$17.99
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Adapted for Young People)

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Adapted for Young...

Jeanne Theoharis

$18.95
$17.62
Rosa Parks: My Story

Rosa Parks: My Story

Jim Haskins and Rosa Parks

$7.99
$7.43
42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero

42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson,...

Doreen Rappaport

$6.99
$6.50