Ages 12-18: Favorite True Story

These books tell incredible real-life stories in the hope that those journeys can touch many more! As part of the 2021 Kids’ Book Choice Awards, kids choose their top 5 Favorite True Stories among these incredible books. No Adults Allowed!

Kids Vote for Favorite True Story

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1789: Twelve Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and Change, Edited by Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti
All Boys Aren’t Blue, by George M. Johnson
Apple (Skin to the Core), by Eric Gansworth
Beyond the Gender Binary, by Alok Vaid-Menon; illus. Ashley Lukashevsky
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person, by Frederick Joseph
Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease, by Gail Jarrow
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival, by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess and Laura L. Sullivan
Dancing at the Pity Party, by Tyler Feder
Desert Diary: Japanese American Kids Behind Barbed Wire, by Michael O. Tunnell
Dragon Hoops, by Gene Luen Yang
Finish the Fight!, by Veronica Chambers and The Staff of The New York Times
Flowers in the Gutter, by K. R. Gaddy
Generation Brave, by Kate Alexander
Give Us the Vote!: Over Two Hundred Years of Fighting for the Ballot, by Susan Goldman Rubin
In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees, by Susan Kuklin; illus. Susan Kuklin
Jane Against the World, by Karen Blumenthal
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan
Lifting As We Climb, by Evette Dione
Ms. Gloria Steinem, by Winifred Conkling
No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley; illus. Jeanette Bradley
Normal, by Magdalena Newman and Nathaniel Newman
On the Horizon, by Lois Lowry
OUT! How To Be Your Authentic Self, by Miles McKenna
Plymouth Rocks!: The Stone-Cold Truth, by Jane Yolen; illus. Sam Streed
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation, by Candy J. Cooper and Marc Aronson
The Racers: How an Outcast Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Challenged Hitler’s Best, by Neal Bascomb
Rise Up! The Art of Protest, by Jo Rippon; Foreword by Mari Copeny
Sarah Bernhardt, by Catherine Reef
Seen: Edmonia Lewis OGN SC, by Jasmine Wells; illus. Bex Glendining
Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria, by Rania Abouzeid
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights, by Lawrence Goldstone
Strongman, by Kenneth C. Davis
This Is Your Time, by Ruby Bridges
To Fly Among the Stars: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts, by Rebecca Siegel
Walk Toward the Rising Sun, by Ger Duany with Garen Thomas
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport, by Deborah Hopkinson
When Stars Are Scattered, by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed; illus. Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy
You Call This Democracy?, by Elizabeth Rusch

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