Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Young Readers) Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir (Revised) Becoming a Visible Man: Second Edition Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom Life Is So Good Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero We're in This Together: A Young Readers Edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
Gender Queer: A Memoir My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist March Forward, Girl If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement Jessie de la Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice (Young Readers) Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Biographies: Young Adults

By Social Justice Books of Teaching for Change

By Social Justice Books of Teaching for Change

Biographies: Young Adults

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

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile, et al.

$17.95
$16.69
We're in This Together: A Young Readers Edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders

We're in This Together: A Young Readers Edition of We Are Not...

Linda Sarsour

$17.99
$16.73
The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice (Young Readers)

The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction,...

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Lara Love Hardin, et al.

$19.99
$18.59
Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth

Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth

Robert Shetterly

$34.95
$32.50
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights...

Gilbert R. Mason

$30.00
If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement

If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship...

Dorothy F. Cotton

$16.00
Life Is So Good

Life Is So Good

Richard Glaubman and George Dawson

$18.00
$16.74
March Forward, Girl

March Forward, Girl

Melba Pattillo Beals and Frank Morrison

$7.99
$7.43
Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle

Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and...

Ida E Jones

$31.99
$29.75
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World

The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World

Dave Zirin and John Wesley Carlos

$15.95
$14.83
Fidel: An Illustrated Biography of Fidel Castro

Fidel: An Illustrated Biography of Fidel Castro

Nestor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma

$14.95
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Raquel Cepeda

$17.99
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir

Staceyann Chin

$18.00
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

David Maraniss

$20.00
$18.60
Jessie de la Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker

Jessie de la Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker

Gary Soto

$13.95
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain

My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain

Aaron Dixon

$19.95
$18.55
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a...

David F. Walker, Damon Smyth, et al.

$19.99
$18.59
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana

Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in...

Nick Weldon, Barrington S. Edwards, et al.

$19.95
$18.55
Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom

Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom

Sonja D. Williams

$26.00
Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian

Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian

Constantine Markides and Anthony Ervin

$16.95
$15.76
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Young Readers)

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

Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

$17.99
$16.73
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

Sharon Rudahl

$17.95
$16.69
Becoming a Visible Man: Second Edition

Becoming a Visible Man: Second Edition

Jamison Green

$34.95
$32.50
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir

Nikki Grimes

$19.99
Gender Queer: A Memoir

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

$19.99
$18.59