The earlier kids realise they can get involved with things and have the power to make a difference the better. These books, all for young people, highlight activism and resistance in their stories.
This reading list, put together by YA Resists, a group of Los Angeles-based YA authors, and sponsored by PEN USA, has something for everybody. And no matter how old you are, the right story can motivate you to fight the good fight, whatever that may mean to you.
- The Ellie McDoodle Diaries: Ellie for President, by Ruth McNally Barshaw
- Annie Glover Is NOT a Tree Lover, by Darleen Bailey Beard and Heather Maione
- My Life With the Lincolns, by Gayle Brandeis
- A Thousand Never Evers, by Shana Burg
- Rose Sees Red, by Cecil Castellucci
- The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
- We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women’s Factory Strike of 1909, by Joan Dash
- Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
- Operation Redwood, by Susannah T. French
- The Wonder of Charlie Anne, by Kimberly Newton Fusco
- Flush, by Carl Hiaasen
- Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
- White Sands, Red Menace, by Ellen Kages
- The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps, by S. Krensky and J. Fulweiler
- Wide Awake, by David Levithan
- Which Side Are You On?: The Story of a Song, by G.E. Lyon and C. Cardinale
- The Rock and The River, by Kekla Magoon
- Fire In the Streets, by Kekla Magoon
- The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, by Sonia Manzano
- Destroy All Cars, by Blake Nelson
- Bread and Roses, Too, by Katherine Paterson
- Lyddie, Katherine Paterson
- Fall-Out, by G. Pausewang
- The Gospel According to Larry, by Janet Tashjian
- Vote for Larry, by Janet Tashjian
- That Girl Lucy Moon, by A. Timberlake
- War & Watermelon, by R. Wallace
- One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Come In From the Cold, by Marsha Qualey
Whether they pick these books up online, in the bookstore, at a book fair, at the local library, or get them as a present, you can be sure they will get something more than a good story out of them.
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