Ability

  • Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale by Barbara Diamond Goldin
  • The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca
  • The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
  • Just Ask! by Sonia Sotomayor

Bodily autonomy

  • I Said No! A Kid-to-Kid Guide to Keeping Your Private Parts Private by Kimberly King
  • Miles is the Boss of His Body by Samantha Kurtzman-Counter
  • Tell Me About Sex, Grandma by Anastasia Higginbotham

Class

  • A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
  • Tight Times by Barbara Shook Hazen
  • The Table Where Rich People Sit by Byrd Baylor
  • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

death

  • Always Remember by Cece Meng
  • The Goodbye Book by Todd Parr
  • Dia de Los Muertos by Roseanne Greenfield Thong
  • Death is Stupid by Anastasia Higginbotham
  • The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages by Leo Buscaglia
  • Grandmother's Visit by Betty Quan
  • I'll Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm
  • The Next Place by Warren Hanson
  • The River of Wisdom by Steve Zagorski
  • Sophie by Mem Fox
  • The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
  • When the Wind Stops by Charlotte Zolotow

Family

  • Black is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff
  • The Family Book by Todd Parr
  • Mama's Saris by Pooja Makhijani
  • My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie
  • Tucking Mommy In by Morag Loh
  • Whistle for Willie by Ezra Keats

immigration

  • Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
  • A Different Pond by Bao Phi
  • Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
  • Going Home by Eve Bunting
  • Grandma and Me at the Flea by Juan Herrera
  • The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
  • Islandborn by Junot Diaz
  • La Frontera: El Viaje Con Papa by Alfredo Alva
  • ​The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story by Pegi Shea
  • Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Mendez

Incarceration

  • Deena Misses Her Mom by Jonae Haynesworth, Jesse Holmes, Layonnie Jones, & Kahliya Ruffin
  • Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat
  • Visiting Day by Jacqueline Woodson

LGBTQ

  • And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
  • The Boy and the Bindi by Vivek Shraya
  • Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
  • Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
  • Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
  • King & King by Linda de Haan
  • Love Is Love by Michael Genhart
  • Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
  • Stonewall by Rob Sanders
  • They She He Me Free to Be by Maya Gonzalez
  • Who Are You?: The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee

Meditation

  • Breathe and Be: A Book of Mindfulness Poems by Kate Coombs
  • Charlotte and the Quiet Place by Deborah Sosin
  • Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
  • Listening with My Heart: A Story of Kindness and Self-Compassion by Gabi Garci
  • Meditation Is an Open Sky: Mindfulness for Kids by Whitney Stewart
  • A Morning with Grandpa by Sylvia Liu
  • My Magic Breath by Nick Ortner and Alison Taylor
  • The Other Way to Listen by Byrd Baylor
  • Peaceful Piggy Meditation by Kerry Lee Maclean
  • Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth

Nature

  • The Air Around Us by Eleonore Schmid
  • ​Circles of Hope by Karen Lynn Williams
  • A Day with Yayah by Nicola I. Campbell
  • The Earth and I by Frank Asch
  • Earthdance by Joanne Ryder
  • I'm in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor
  • This Land Is My Land by George Littlechild
  • Time Flies by Eric Rohmann

Race

  • Bein' With You This Way by W. Nikola-Lisa
  • Cleversticks by Bernard Ashley
  • Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
  • Happy to be Nappy by bell hooks
  • Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
  • Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
  • The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz
  • Skin Again by bell hooks
  • Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
  • Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzales

Self esteem

  • The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  • I Am Enough by Grace Byers
  • No Mirrors in My Nana's House by Ysaye M. Barnwell
  • Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall

violence

  • Flowers for Sarajevo by John McCutcheon
  • From Far Away by Robert Munsch
  • The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter
  • Smoky Night by Eve Bunting