Top Social Justice Books for Middle Schoolers

The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Adapted for Young People (ReVisioning History for Young People)

The Surrender Tree / El árbol de la rendición: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom/ Poemas de la lucha de Cuba por su libertad (Bilingual)

The Trial of God

The Trouble with Black Boys: ...and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World

The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice

The Woman Who Ran For President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull

The Words of César Chávez

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)

They Called Me King Tiger: My Struggle for the Land and Our Rights (Hispanic Civil Rights (Paperback))

They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition

They Had a Dream: The Struggles of Four of the Most Influential Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to ... X (Jules Archer History for Young Readers)

This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality

Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence

Thomas Paine: A Life from Beginning to End (American Revolutionary War)

To Raise Up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country

Toyohiko Kagawa: An Apostle of Love and Social Justice

Tree Shaker: The Life of Nelson Mandela (New York Times)