San José Public Library Booklist Compiled by librarian Tiffany E. Garcia, Elizabeth Allen, and SJPL’s Racial Equity Team for Barring Freedom on view at SJMA through April 25, 2021. Express Pickup
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CHILDREN 1. Ruby on the Outside
Baskin, Nora Raleigh. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. SJPL: Book, eBook
2. Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me
Beaty, Daniel. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. SJPL: Book
3. Far Apart, Close in Heart
Birtha, Becky. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 2017. SJPL: Book
4. Hazelnut Days
Bourdier, Emmanuel. Hong Kong: Minedition, Michael Neugebauer Publishing, 2018. SJPL: Book
5. Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice Celano, Marianne. Washington, DC: Magination Press, 2018. SJPL: Book, eAudiobook
6. Missing Daddy
Kaba, Mariame. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2019. SJPL: Book, eBook
7. Visiting Day
Woodson, Jacqueline. New York: Scholastic Press, 2002. SJPL: Book, eBook
TEEN 1. The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Ahrens, Lois. Oakland: PM Press, 2008. SJPL: eBook
2. My Story Starts Here: Voices of Young Offenders Ellis, Deborah. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2019. SJPL: eBook
3. Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Jones, Sabrina. New York: The New Press, 2013. SJPL: Book
4. Lockdown
Myers, Walter Dean. New York: Amistad, 2010. SJPL: Book, Audiobook, eBook, eAudiobook
5. The 57 Bus
Slater, Dashka. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. SJPL: Book, Audiobook, eBook, eAudiobook
6. Juvie
Watkins, Steve. Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2013. SJPL: Book, eBook
7. “What Will Happen to Me?”
Zehr, Howard and Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2011. SJPL: eBook
ADULT 1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Alexander, Michelle. New York: New Press, 2010. SJPL: Book, Audiobook, eBook, eAudiobook
2. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment Bauer, Shane. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. SJPL: Book, Audiobook, eBook
3. All Alone in the World: Children of Incarcerated Parents Bernstein, Nell. New York: New Press, 2005. SJPL: Book
4. Felon: Poems
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019. SJPL: Book
5. Are Prisons Obsolete?
Davis, Angela Y. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003. SJPL: eBook
6. Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking up Immigrants. Hernandez, Garcia and Cesar Cuauhtemoc. New York: The New Press, 2019. SJPL: Book, eBook
7. A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland Hill, DaMaris. New York, London, Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. SJPL: Book, eBook
8. Inside this Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons.
Levi, Robin and Waldman Ayelet, eds., San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2011. SJPL: Book
9. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Stevenson, Bryan. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014. SJPL: Book, Audiobook, eBook