Best History, Current Affairs and Religion books for young adult readers, including adult-YA crossover books.
YA & Adult-YA Crossovers:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Total books found: 27
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The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults)
by Karen Valby
1/14/2025, 288 pages.
A full accounting of five incredibly talented Black ballerinas from The Dance Theater of Harlem, founding members among them, that illuminates their hard-fought, historic, and ...
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Represent
by Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
9/10/2024, 256 pages.
Read about the electrifying and continuing fight for voting rights—and discover your place in it—in this dramatic exploration of American democracy, from renowned ...
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The Salt Thief
by Neal Bascomb
9/3/2024, 272 pages.
The dramatic story of Gandhi and India's long march to freedom by award-winning author Neal Bascomb.
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Shift Happens
by J. Albert Mann
6/4/2024, 416 pages.
You need to work to live. That's the truth for most people, and plenty of people in power have been abusing that truth for centuries.
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Rising from the Ashes
by Paula Yoo
5/7/2024, 368 pages.
Award-winning author Paula Yoo delivers a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles's 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities.
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American Wings
by Sherri L. Smith
1/16/2024, 384 pages.
From the acclaimed author of Flygirl and the bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes the thrilling and inspiring true story of the desegregation of the skies.
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More Than a Dream
by Yohuru Williams
8/29/2023, 272 pages.
A gripping middle-grade history that offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest's radical roots and the ...
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A Long Time Coming
by Ray Anthony Shepard
8/8/2023, 336 pages.
This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and ...
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The Sum of Us
by Heather McGhee
2/21/2023, 240 pages.
The New York Times bestseller, now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers, and activists. A groundbreaking call to action that examines how racism affects...
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