Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling

10 best books like Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling (Sabrina Jones): Birthday, Kiss Number 8, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, How We Fight For Our Lives, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, The Guinevere Deception, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Look Both Ways, I Am Alfonso Jones, Ruined

Birthday

Author	Meredith Russo
ISBN	1250129834

Boyhood meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this unconventional love story by award-winning author Meredith Russo!

Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as Eric figures...

Kiss Number 8

Author

Colleen A.F. Venable

Amanda can’t figure out what’s so exciting about kissing. It’s just a lot of teeth clanking, germ swapping, closing of eyes so you can’t see that godzilla-sized zit just inches from your own hormonal monstrosity. All of her seven kisses had been horrible in different ways, but nothing compared...

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Author

Gretchen McCulloch

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...

How We Fight For Our Lives

Author	Saeed Jones
ISBN	1501132733

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

Author	Kimberly Jones
ISBN	1492678899

Lena and Campbell aren't friends.

Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school.

When both girls attend the Friday-night football...

The Guinevere Deception

Author	Kiersten White
ISBN	0525581685

From New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes a new fantasy series reimagining the Arthurian legend, set in the magical world of Camelot.

There was nothing in the world as magical and terrifying as a girl.

Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the...

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

Author	Don Brown
ISBN	1328810151

In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...

Look Both Ways

Author

Jason Reynolds

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all they different directions a walk home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it...

I Am Alfonso Jones

Author	Tony Medina
ISBN	1620142635

Alfonso Jones can’t wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school’s hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels about her. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun,...

Ruined

Author

Lynn Nottage

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday

“An intense and gripping new drama . . ....

Citizen Illegal

Author	José Olivarez
ISBN	1608469549

In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything...