NY Reads, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
NY Reads is a diverse and inclusive simultaneous access collection of over 1,300 eBook and audiobooks purchased by 33 BOCES and Big 5 Districts throughout New York State. The collection includes a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles to meet the individual and academic needs of learners across the state.
Created by NY Reads members from your local School Library System

- 2,650 Resources including
- 330 Videos
- 238 Book Readings
- 411 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 216 book results


Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship
by Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, and Scott Magoon
40 Resources4 Awards

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
by Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson
34 Resources11 Awards

Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton and Don Tate
33 Resources11 Awards

Stella Díaz Has Something to Say
28 Resources3 Awards


Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
27 Resources4 Awards

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
27 Resources5 Awards

Sisters of the Neversea
23 Resources4 Awards



Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
by Jabari Asim and E.B. Lewis
21 Resources6 Awards

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
21 Resources3 Awards

The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History
by Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace, and Charly Palmer
21 Resources4 Awards


Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
by Walter Dean Myers and Floyd Cooper
20 Resources3 Awards




So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
by Gary D. Schmidt and Daniel Minter
18 Resources4 Awards

Let 'er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People's Champion
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Gordon C. James
18 Resources5 Awards

I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
by Miranda Paul, Baptiste Paul, and Elizabeth Zunon
18 Resources3 Awards