How to Be a (Young) Antiracist [Hardcover]

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Based on the adult international bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice.

“Gives teens the tools they need to create a more just society and encourages them to undo some of the damage created by generations before them.”—The Root

We can let racism stand, or we can stand against it.

How to Be a (Young) Antiracist is a dynamic reframing of Ibram X. Kendi’s international bestseller How to Be an Antiracist, with young adulthood front and center.

Through the narration of acclaimed author Nic Stone, we follow a young Ibram as he learns (and unlearns) lessons that help shape his understanding of racism. Ibram’s life story and Nic’s engaging commentary throughout speak directly to the experiences and concerns of young readers, encouraging them to think critically and, in doing so, build a more equitable world.

Being antiracist is a journey, not an end goal—and now young people have a map to help them carve their own path. Heartbreaking, soaring, fulfilling, a deep-dive, this should be canon in high school classrooms and reprinted in pocket-size format for carrying around. —School Library Journal, starred review

[A] book that seems to want to equip young people living now, in the midst of surround-sound injustice, open and almost gleeful bigotry—in public and in private—with the language and the skills to recognize they too have been drafted. Then it calls on them to decide if, where, and how they will revolt against that system.