A teacher recently asked me to see if we had enough books in the library for her class to do a project based on justice. It could be fiction or non-fiction, it could be set in the present, past or future and be any form of justice, whether criminal, racial or social. I turned to the trusty YALSA-BK listserv for some help and we came up with quite a few titles as well as some lists on other websites.
Do you have any other great books that you would add to this list?
Non-Fiction
- The High Price I Had to Pay 2 Sentenced to 30 Years as a Nonviolent. First Time Offender. by Michelle Myers
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross
- Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics in the aftermath of an anti-gay murder by Beth Loffreda
- The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
- No Choirboy: Murder, Violence and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin
- The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
- Pete Rose: An American Dilemma by Kostya Kennedy
- The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
- An Unspeakable Crime: the prosecution and persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Fiction
- Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
- Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
- Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
- The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
- I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
- Lies We Tell Ourselves Robin Talley
- The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle
- Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
- Messenger of Fear by Michael Grant
- The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
- Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis
- Mortal Danger by Ann Aguire
- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
- Returning to Normal by Patrick Jones
- Rikers High by Paul Volponi
Graphic Novels
- In Real Life by Cory Doctorow
- Superhero graphic novels
Book Lists on Other Websites