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2024 MCPL Children's Staff Favorites

Antiracist Books for Teens

Best of 2024
 

All Staff Picks:

Kids     

Teens     

Adults     

Mixed Ages     

 

 

Kids: 2024 MCPL Children's Staff Favorites

January Staff Picks List

  • Drawn Onward


  • The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels


  • Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston


  • Nicola Traveling Around the Demons’ World


  • Impossible Creatures


  • Squirrel Needs a Break


  • Anzu and the Realm of Darkness


  • Foodie Faces


  • The Curse of Eelgrass Bog


  • It Is Okay


  • Ferris


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Teens: Antiracist Books for Teens

January Staff Picks List

  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • Pet


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Run: Book One


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • You Truly Assumed


  • Gone Wolf


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • The 57 Bus


  • Bitter Root, Volume 1: Family Business


  • Harvest House


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • We Are the Scribes


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • Felix Ever After


  • New Kid


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Adults: Best of 2024

January Staff Picks List

  • James


  • Crook Manifesto


  • What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez


  • Night Watch


  • The Reformatory


  • The Berry Pickers


  • Kairos


  • Brotherless Night


  • Orbital


  • Flags on the Bayou


  • Taiwan Travelogue


  • Some Desperate Glory


  • I am Homeless if This is not My Home


  • The Saint of Bright Doors


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