Books

Championing equity through literature—featuring stories and perspectives that broaden understanding and promote inclusion

• Nursery - Year 2
   
•  Years 3 - 4
  
  

  • Ballerina Dreams by Michaela and Elaine DePrince
  • Can You Get Music on the Moon? by Dr Sheila Kanani
  • Chews your Own Tasty Adventure by Sai Pathmanathan
  • Dr Roopa's Body Books by Dr Roopa Farooki
  • Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin
  • How to be a Doctor and Other Life-Saving Jobs by Dr Punam Krishan
  • Journeys of Empire by Sathnam Sanghera
  • Little Guides to Nature (series) by Nina Chakrabarti
•  Years 5 - 6
  
  

  • Aliens by Joalda Morancy

  • An ABC of Equality: Volume 1 - Empowering Alphabets by Chana Ginelle Ewing

  • Big Manny Science is Lit: Awesome Electricity and Mad Magnets by Big Manny

  • Coming to England by Floella Benjamin
  • How to Change the World by Rashmi Sirdeshpande

  • Mysteries of the Human Body by Azmain Chowdhury

  • One Home by Hiba Noor Khan

  • Reaching for the Moon by Katherine Johnson
  • The Power of Welcome by Various

  • The Ways of the Wolf by Smriti Prasadam-Halls

  • We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
•  Years 7, 8 and 9
  
  

  • Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
  • Radio Free Afghanistan by Saad Mohseni with Jenna Krajeski
  • The Place I Call Home by Anna Lo
  • The Power of Music by Sheku Kannek-Mason
  • The Starspotter’s Guide by Sheila Kanani
  • Unbroken by Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • We Are Not Numbers by Ahmed Alnaouq
•  Years 10 - 11
  
  

  • A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry
  • Always Winning by Ashley Walters
  • Eight Weeks by Baroness Lola Young
  • Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh
  • Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar
  • Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
  • New Black Cyclones by Marlon Lee Moncrieffe
  • Nobody Can Give You Freedom by Kehinde Andrews
  • One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
  • Peacemaker by Thant Myint-U
  • Pride and Prejudices by Keio Yoshida
  • Searching for my Slave Roots by Malik Al Nasir
  • The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • We Were There by Lanre Bakare
  • Wolf Moon by Arifa Akbar
  • Words for My Comrades by Dean van Nguyen
•  Years 12 - 13
  
  

  • Ask Me How It Works by Deepa Paul
  • Chutzpah! by Yehudis Fletcher
  • Decolonizing Language by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • Docile by Hyesueng Song
  • Dreams in a Time Of War by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • Extractive Capitalism by Laleh Khalili
  • The Trembling Hand by Mathelinda Nabugodi
  • Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
  • This Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini

• Nursery - Year 2
  
  

  • Black and British: A Short, Essential History by David Olusoga
•  Years 3 - 4
  
  

  • The History of We by Nikkolas Smith
•  Years 5 - 6
  
  

  • Black and British: An Illustrated History for young readers by David Olusoga

  • Brilliant Black British History by Atinuke
  • Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Stolen History by Sathnam Sanghera
•  Years 7, 8 and 9
  
  

  • Motherland by Luke Pepera
  • Vanished by Sadiah Qureshi
  • When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors by Paula Akpan
•  Years 10 - 11
  
  

  • Scenes of Sujection by Saidiya Hartman
  • The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
•  Years 12 - 13
   

• Nursery - Year 2
  
  

  • Ibraheem's Perfect Eid by Farhana Islam
  • Weiwei's Winter Solstice by Michelle Jing Chan
•  Years 3 - 4
  
  

  • A Vaisakhi to Remember by Simran Jeet Singh
•  Years 5 - 6
   

• Nursery - Year 2
  
  

  • A Story About Afiya by James Berry
  • Aziza's Secret Fairy Door by Lola Morayo
  • Grimwood by Nadia Shireen
  • Super Goat Girl by Tracey Baptiste
•  Years 3 - 4
  
  

  • Ace and the Animal Heroes: The wacky Weather Mystery by JB Gill
  • Anisha, Accidental Detective by Serena Patel
  • Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke
  • Dave Pigeon (series) by Swapna Haddow
  • Destiny Ink (series) by Adeola Sokunbi
  • Kites and Lemonade by Yasmin bint Ahmad
  • Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
  • Speak Up! (Rocket series) by Nathan Bryon
  • Tiny the Secret Adventurer (series) by Aisha Bushby
•  Years 5 - 6
  
  

  • Aliya to the Infinite City by Laila Rifaat
  • Anya's Quest by Jasbinder Bilan
  • Black Girl Power edited by Leah Johnson
  • Bree Boyd is a Legend by Leah Johnson
  • Car Wash Wish by Sita Brahmachari
  • Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths by Maisie Chan
  • Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson
  • Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
  • Mayhem Mission by Burhana Islam
  • Meet the Maliks (series) by Zanib Mian
  • Mindy Kim (series) by Lyla Lee
  • Momo Arashima (series) by Miss Sugiura
  • Naeli and the Secret Song by Jasbinder Bilan
  • On Thin Ice by Jessica Kim
  • Pia's Pet Club by Serena Patel
  • Planey Omar (series) by Zanib Mian
  • Smiling Eyes by Linda Sue Park
  • Solving Crimes is NOT My Superpower by Nathanael Lessore
  • Sunshine Simpson (series) by G. M. Linton
  • Supernatural Investigators (Amari - series) by B. B. Alston
  • The Boy to Beat the Gods by Ashley Thorpe
  • The Breakfast Club Adventures (series) by Marcus Rashford
  • The Girl Who Couldn't Lie by Radhika Sangani
  • The Island Crew Investigates (series) by Kereen Getten
  • The Leap Cycle (series) by Patience Agbabi
  • The Little Badman (series) by Humza Arshad and Henry White
  • Vanya and the Wild Hunt by Sangu Mandanna
  • Wild Journey by A. M. Dassu
  • Wild Magic (series) by Abiola Bello
  • Wildful by Kengo Yurimoto
  • Yasmin Bandara Levels Up! by Romesh Ranganathan
  • You Must Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
  • Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao
•  Years 7, 8 and 9
  
  

  • Augmented by Kenechi Udogu
  • Coven by Soman Chainani
  • Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution by S. K. Ali
  • Invisible Kittens by Yu Yoyo
  • Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
  • Payal Mehta’s Romance Revenge Plot by Preeti Chhibber
  • Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi
  • Summer Rolls by Tuyen Do
  • The Mirror World by Femi Fadugba
  • The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
•  Years 10 - 11
  
  

  • Audre and Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
  • City of Sinners by A. A. Dhand
  • Finding Belle by Reeta Chakrabarti
  • Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
  • Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki
  • Girl Zero by A. A. Dhand
  • Ground by Jadelin Gangbo
  • Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
  • Kakigori Summer by Emily Itami
  • My Friends by Hisham Matar
  • One Way Out by A. A. Dhand
  • Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal
  • Shamiso by Brian Cikwava
  • Streets of Darkness by A. A. Dhand
  • The Blood Divide by A. A. Dhand
  • The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
  • The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao
  • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
  • The Midnight Carousel by Fiza Saeed McLynn
  • The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang
  • The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa
  • The Second Chance Convenience Store by Kim Ho-Yeon
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
  • The Thirty Before Thirty List by Tasneem Abdur-Rasheed
  • The Zorg by Siddharth Kara
•  Years 12 - 13
  
  

  • Art on Fire by Yun Ko-eun
  • Audition by Katie Kitamura
  • Awakened by Kelechi Okafor
  • Break Room by Miye Lee
  • Carnivore by K. Anis Ahmed
  • Chaotic Energy by Stephanie Yeboah
  • Choice by Neel Mukherjee
  • Cuckoo by Callie Kazumi
  • Death in the Air by Ram Murali
  • Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
  • Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
  • Innocent Guilt by Remi Kone
  • Lush by Rochelle Dowden-Lord
  • Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki
  • Model Home by Rivers Solomon
  • My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner
  • Old Soul by Susan Barker
  • Roadkill by Amil
  • Sayonara Bar by Susan Barker
  • Shape of an Apostrophe by Uttama Kirit Patel
  • Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter
  • Swallows by Natuso Kirino
  • Sweet heat by Bolu Babalola
  • The Best of Everything by Kit De Waal
  • The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
  • The Consultant by Im Seong-sun
  • The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
  • The Last Soldier of Nava by Yen Suh
  • The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah
  • Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
  • What Happens in the Dark by Kia Abdullah
  • Where the Fireflies Dance by Aisha Hassan
  • Where You Go, I will Go by Christina Fonthes

• Nursery - Year 2
  
  

  • Freedom Braids by Monique Duncan
•  Years 3 - 4
   
•  Years 5 - 6
  
  

  • Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah

  • Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah
•  Years 7, 8 and 9
  • Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon by Anthony Joseph
•  Years 10 - 11
  
  

  • A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
  • An Abundance Of Wild Roses by Feryal Ali-Gauhar
  • Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya
  • Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  • Oromay by Baalu Girma
  • Strange Music by Laura Fish
  • The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
•  Years 12 - 13
  • A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • Burning Seasons by Nana Howton
  • The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen by Shokoofeh Azar
  • The Incarnations by Susan Barker
  • The Orientalist and the Ghost by Susan Barker
  • We Do Not Part by Han Kang
  • Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • When Sleeping Women Wake by Emma Pei Ying

• Nursery - Year 2
  • Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman
•  Years 3 - 4
  • Alive Again by Ahmadreza Ahmadi
•  Years 5 - 6
  • Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah

  • The Crossing by Manjeet Mann 
•  Years 7, 8 and 9
  • DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
  • Hardly War by Don Mee Choi
  • Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi
  • Precious and Impossible by Anthony Joseph
  • Roar by Manjeet Mann
  • Sing a Black Girl’s Song by Ntozake Shange
  • Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
  • This Is Not a Small Voice by Sonia Sanchez
•  Years 10 - 11
  • AGIMAT by Romalyn Ante
  • Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus
  • The Epic of Cader Idris by Samatar Elmi
  • The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha
  • The Wickedest by Caleb Femi
  • Transfigurations by Jay Wright
•  Years 12 - 13
  • Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon
  • Find Me as the Creature I Am by Emily Jungmin Yoon

• Nursery - Year 2
  • A Love as Full as the Moon by Lucy Tandon Copp
  • Can You Find My Eid Presents? by A. M. Dassu
  • I Am Nefertiti by Annemarie Anang
  • I'm Going To Be A Princess by Stephanie Taylor
  • Little Sheku and the Animal Orchestra by Sheku Kanneh-Mason
  • M is for Mango by Atinuke
  • Maya & Marley and the Great Big Tidy Up by Laura Henry-Allain
  • Meena's Saturday by Kusum Mepani
  • Mirror Magic (series) by Sharon King-Chai
  • My Must-Have Mum by Maudie Smith
  • My Rice is Best by Selina Brown
  • Smiling Eyes by Linda Sue Park
  • That's NOT My Name! by Anoosha Syed
  • The Elephant That Ate The Night by Bing Bai
  • The Great Henna Party by Humera Malik
  • The Night Before Holi by Swapna Haddow
  • Tyrone's Cool Crown by Lenny Henry
  • Weirdo Goes Wild by Zadie Smith and Nick Laird
•  Years 3 - 4
  • A Century for Caroline by Kaija Langley
  • At the Window by Hope Lim
  • Fierce Aunties by Laurel Goodluck
  • I'm going to make a friend by Darren Chetty
  • Looking for a Jumbie by Tracey Baptiste
  • Maisie's Scrapbook by Samuel Narh
  • Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter
  • Sakina and the Uninvited Guests by Zahra Marwan
  • Teddy's Midnight Adventure by Yoko Mori
  • The Beautiful Layers of Me by Sophia Payne
  • The Magic of Callaloo by Trish Cooke
  • We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang
  • We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens
  • Wednesday is for Wiggling by Eva Wong Nava
•  Years 5 - 6
  • Our Story Starts in Africa by Patrice Lawrence

  • Outstanding / ARBENNIG! by Jessica Dunrod

  • Saving H'Non: Chang and the Elephant by Trany Nguyen
  • Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear by Trany Nguyen

  • Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
  • The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community (The Proudest Blue) by Ibtihaj Muhammad
  • The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
  • Your Hair is Your Crown /Dy Wallt yw Dy Goron by Jessica Dunrod

 

• Nursery - Year 2
  • A Cup of Quiet by Nikki Grimes
  • Femi and the Mindfulness Machine by Flo Fielding
  • Kaya's Heart Song by Diwa Tharan Sanders
•  Years 3 - 4
  • A Day With No Words by Tiffany Hammond
  • The Best of You by Nima Patel
•  Years 5 - 6
  • It's a Brave Young World: A guide to Life, Relationships and Speaking Up by Anu Adebogun
•  Years 7, 8 and 9
   
•  Years 10 - 11
  • Decisions That Matter by Adrienne Adhami
•  Years 12 - 13