The YA nonfiction genre can offer powerful ways for teens to connect with the world around them. These titles bring real voices, real stories, and real issues to the forefront—ideal for sparking critical thinking, empathy, and meaningful discussion.
Single Titles
Speaking on Climate
Interest Level: Grade 6 – Grade 12
What makes a speech well-written, memorable, and effective? And how can someone apply those skills to climate justice? UN Climate Action Communication Coordinator Rune Kier Nielsen will answer these questions and more in this timely guide.
Disconnected
Interest Level: Grade 6 – Grade 12
Alzheimer’s disease is a dementia that affects the memory, thinking, and behavior of millions of Americans. Understand more about what Alzheimer’s is through a look at its stages, current clinical research, caregiver accounts, and more.
Design Thinking
Interest Level: Grade 7 – Grade 12
Design thinking is a six-step process used in creative problem solving. This book examines each step—notice and reflect, empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test—and provides case studies to illustrate how design thinking can create a more human-centered, equitable world.
Feminism from A to Z
Interest Level: Grade 9 – Grade 12
Dive into Feminism from A to Z for an accessible primer on history, current events, and essential issues through the lens of feminist theory and perspective. This book is about feminism for teens of any gender.
Series
Dealing with Disorders and Disease
Interest Level: Grade 5 – Grade 12
This detailed and insightful series will provide readers with a thorough understanding of diseases and disorders that affect many young people, and it is also an invaluable source of information for people who live with the conditions.
Spotlight on Social Justice
Interest Level: Grade 6 – Grade 12
Give readers an in-depth primer of prominent civics issues in North America. Each book covers the history of its respective topic, what modern concerns are and whether or how they’ve changed, and what the future may hold for impacted communities at large.
Extraordinary Women in Psychology
Interest Level: Grade 7 – Grade 9
These biographies tell the stories of relatively unknown but ground-breaking psychology researchers and their tireless advocacy in the pursuit of social justice. Extraordinary Women in Psychology will inspire a new generation of young changemakers to make a difference in our world.
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