While our building is not open, the Library is still available through digital resources to facilitate learning and discussion during this time of turmoil and hurt. Library staff have put together a book list of material for all ages to learn more about racial justice and civil rights in our country.
If you are looking for resources we invite you to check out the book list below. These titles are available in digital format with your Melrose Public Library card.
Children
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
Black Is A Rainbow Color by Angela Joy and Ekua Holmes
Let The Children March by Monica Clark- Robinson
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Mixed A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
Something Happened In Our Town by Marianne Celano
We Rise We Resist We Raise Our Own Voices edited by Wade Hudson
Please also take a look at our Children’s room Diversity book list
Teen
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Double Victory by Cheryl Mullenbach
A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
It’s Trevor Noah: Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Harlem Hellfighters by Walter Dean Myers
March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Loving vs Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Riot by Walter Dean Myers
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Please also take a look at our Diverse Stories Teen Voices booklist
Adults
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Essential Gwendolyn Brooks by Gwendolyn Brooks
Hitting A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
Home by Toni Morrison
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Stony The Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrica Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
How to Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
On Account of Race by Lawrence Goldstone
Stay Woke by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
Don’t have a specific title in mind but want a good book to read or movie to watch? Try one of our browsing bags! Click on a link below, fill out the corresponding form, and staff will create a browsing bag of 5 titles for you.
