Reading LisT
This reading list, curated by the [tbh] team, features great book suggestions and is broken down by age group. We will continue to expand this resource, so check back for updates!
All Ages
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Toddlers
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- It’s Tot Shabbat! by Naomi Danis
- Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom by Sarah Aroeste
Children
- Ban this Book by Alan Gratz
Younger Children (under 9)
- Ezra’s BIG Shabbat Question by Aviva Brown
- Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
- The Color of Us by Karen Katz
- Jalapeno Bagels by Natasha Wing
- Hanukkah Moon by Deborah DeCosta
- Yaffa and Fatima, Shalom, Salaam by Fawzia Gilani-Williams
- Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas by Pamela Ehrenberg
- Always an Olivia by Carolivia Herron
- Elan, Son of Two People by Heidi Smith-Hyde
Older Children (9-11)
- The Time Tunnel 2: The Dreyfus Affair by Galia Ron- Feder- Amit
- Penina Levine is a Hard Boiled Egg by Rebecca O’Connell
- Quake!: Disaster in Francisco, 1906 by Gail Langer Karwoski
- OyMG by Amy Fellner Dominy
- A Time to be Brave by Joan Betty Stuchner
- Brave Girl by Michelle Markel
- Goldie Takes a Stand by Barbara Krasner
- I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
- Like a Maccabee by Barbara Bietz
- Queen Esther Saves Her People by Rita Goldman Gelman
Middle Readers (11+)
- Stealing Home by Ellen Schwartz
- My Basmati Bat Mitzvah by Paula J. Freedman
- This is Just a Test by Wendy Wan-Long Shang & Madelyn Rosenberg
Teen - Young Adult
- Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
- Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
- You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Yes No Maybe So by Aisha Saeed & Becky Albertalli
- Channel Kindness by Lady Gaga/BTW Foundation
- Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
- Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Adult
- The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
- Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
