COMING SOON
Spark-brary is now located at the Lafayette Community Center next to the Tot Lot! The address is 500 St. Marys Rd, Lafayette CA
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Spark-brary has the titles below for your reading enjoyment. These books are meant to stay at the Community Center, and enjoyed while you are there. Books should not be taken or added. We hope that you will read some of these books, and that it will spark discussions with your family and friends. And better yet, I hope it sparks action in our community.
Spark-brary is also now located at Burton Valley Elementary! The address is 561 Merriewood Dr. Lafayette, CA
KIDS BOOKS
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
I Am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
Maya Angelou by Lisbeth Kaiser
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Pride by Rob Sanders
Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel
TEENS BOOKS
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Child of the Dream by Sharon Robinson
Before the Ever After by Jaqueline Woods
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
George by Alex Gino
March by John Lewis
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent by Thomas B. Allen
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ADULT BOOKS
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Color Of Law by Richard Rothstein
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Real American by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
The Boy Who Was Not a Lesbian And Other True Stories by Kristin Lyseggen
Pedagogy of Hope by Paulo Freire