Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Resources for a selection of titles recognized by this list since 1999 -- honoring books that reflect a pluralistic view of world society
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![Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/104.png)
- 11,901 Resources including
- 1,108 Videos
- 645 Book Readings
- 1,191 Lesson Plans
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Showing 1-48 of 647 book results
![Dreamers](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0823440559.jpg)
![Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/73500_hi.jpg)
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
(Selection, 2022)
68 Resources22 Awards
![Long Way Down](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1481438255.jpg)
![We Are Water Protectors](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1250203554.jpg)
We Are Water Protectors
by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade
(Selection, 2021)
66 Resources19 Awards
![Last Stop on Market Street](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0399257748.jpg)
Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Selection, 2016)
64 Resources16 Awards
![Brown Girl Dreaming](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0399252517.jpg)
![Firekeeper's Daughter](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/73080_hi.jpg)
![Ain't Burned All the Bright](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/80064_hi.jpg)
Ain't Burned All the Bright
by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
(Selection, 2023)
60 Resources17 Awards
![Day You Begin, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0399246533.jpg)
![Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1626727465.jpg)
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal
(Selection, 2020)
57 Resources18 Awards
![Dragon Hoops](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/68413_hi.jpg)
![When Stars Are Scattered](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0525553908.jpg)
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, and Iman Geddy
(Selection, 2021)
56 Resources20 Awards
![Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0544102290.jpg)
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
(Selection, 2016)
53 Resources14 Awards
![Undefeated, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/62315_hi.jpg)
![Where the Mountain Meets the Moon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0316114278.jpg)
![Alma and How She Got Her Name](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0763693553.jpg)
![We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/61171_hi.jpg)
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
by Traci Sorell and Frané Lessac
(Selection, 2019)
51 Resources14 Awards
![Each Kindness](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0399246525.jpg)
![Esperanza Rising](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0613538072.jpg)
![Inside Out & Back Again](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0061962783.jpg)
![Night Diary, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0735228515.jpg)
![Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419710540.jpg)
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Selection, 2015)
47 Resources16 Awards
![Efrén Divided](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0062881701.jpg)
![Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0763665312.jpg)
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes
(Selection, 2016)
46 Resources16 Awards
![Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1419716476.jpg)
![Drawn Together](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1484767608.jpg)
![Other Words for Home](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0062747800.jpg)
![Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0385321759.jpg)
![Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0316013692.jpg)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney
(Selection, 2008)
43 Resources7 Awards
![Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0544109414.jpg)
![Poem for Peter, A: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0425287688.jpg)
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Steve Johnson, and Lou Fancher
(Selection, 2017)
43 Resources8 Awards
![Ghost Boys](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0316262285.jpg)
![Last Cuentista, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1646140893.jpg)
![Bud, Not Buddy](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0385323069.jpg)
![With the Fire on High](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/006266283X.jpg)
![Red, White, and Whole](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74570_hi.jpg)
![People's Painter, The: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1419741306.jpg)
The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
by Cynthia Y. Levinson and Evan Turk
(Selection, 2022)
42 Resources10 Awards
![Stella by Starlight](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1442494972.jpg)
Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper and Sarah Jane Coleman
(Selection, 2016)
41 Resources11 Awards
![Amal Unbound](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0399544682.jpg)
![Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0593379934.jpg)
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
by Kwame Mbalia and Lamar Giles
(Selection, 2022)
41 Resources9 Awards
![I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/031642692X.jpg)
I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story
by Martha Brockenbrough, Grace Lin, and Julia Kuo
(Selection, 2022)
41 Resources8 Awards
![Lightning Dreamer, The: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0547807430.jpg)
![I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1481465597.jpg)
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley
(Selection, 2017)
40 Resources12 Awards
![Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0062748688.jpg)
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar
(Selection, 2020)
40 Resources11 Awards
![Bridge Home, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1524738115.jpg)