Young Adult NonFiction - Biography

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Stay Up: Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom By Khodi Dill, Stylo Starr (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Khodi Dill, Stylo Starr (Illustrator)
$23.99
ISBN: 9781773218076
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Published: Annick Press - October 17th, 2023

An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.


The Denim Diaries: A Memoir By Laurie Boyle Crompton Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9798765604885
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Published: Zest Books (Tm) - November 14th, 2023

Laurie Boyle Crompton's coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City area in the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic.


Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People By Rebecca Pitts Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781644212998
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Published: Triangle Square - October 31st, 2023

The first biography of Jane Jacobs for young people, the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker who transformed the way we inhabit and develop our cities.


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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe By Steve Sheinkin Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250265722
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Published: Roaring Brook Press - August 29th, 2023

From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.


A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars By Hakeem Oluseyi, Joshua Horwitz Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781984849632
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Published: Delacorte Press - August 15th, 2023

A NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation's top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring coming-of-age memoir.


Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun By Kaz Rowe Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781947440074
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Published: Getty Publications - September 12th, 2023

Illustrator Kaz Rowe’s graphic biography Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun, reveals how the creative and courageous Surrealist artist championed freedom at every turn, from rejecting gender norms and finding queer love to risking death to sabotage the Nazis.
 
At the turn of the 20th century in Nantes, France, Lucy Schwob met Suzanne Malherbe,


A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama By Ray Anthony Shepard, R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator) Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781662680663
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Published: Calkins Creek - August 8th, 2023

This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much—and how little—has changed for Black Americans since our country’s founding.


Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali By Marc Bernardin, Ron Salas (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Marc Bernardin, Ron Salas (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250881632
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Published: First Second - August 15th, 2023

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad Ali, one of the most revered—and controversial—figures of the twentieth century, immortalized those words with the beauty, strength, and originality of his boxing style.


How to Be a (Young) Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi, Nic Stone Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780593461617
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Published: Kokila - September 12th, 2023

The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice.


Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America By Susan Campbell Bartoletti Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780063295964
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Published: Clarion Books - August 1st, 2023

In a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most misunderstood women in American history.


Farewell to Manzanar 50th Anniversary Edition By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston (Illustrator), James D. Houston Cover Image
$22.99
ISBN: 9780063319059
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Published: Clarion Books - October 17th, 2023

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country.


Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People By Kekla Magoon Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781536228168
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Published: Candlewick - August 8th, 2023

A National Book Award Finalist
A Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book