How to Be a (Young) Antiracist

The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, TROUBLEMAKER will serve as a guide for kids seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice.

The New York Times bestseller HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi is shaping the way a generation thinks about race and racism. TROUBLEMAKER is a dynamic reframing of the concepts shared in the adult book, with young adulthood front and center. Aimed at readers 12 and up, and co-authored by award-winning children s book author Nic Stone, TROUBLEMAKER empowers young readers to help create a more just society. Antiracism is a journey--and now young adults will have a map to carve their own path. Kendi and Stone have revised this work to provide anecdotes and data that speaks directly to the experiences and concerns of younger readers to think critically and build a more equitable world in doing so.

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"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 notably effective adaptation. Successfully broadens the reach of the original to a younger audience." Kirkus Reviews

"...an incredibly accessible read geared to teens... guided by Stone's energetic narration; kids will definitely see themselves in his [Kendi's] journey." The Boston Globe

"The young person's version 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

"Attention to gender, sexuality, class, and honest self-critique makes for an ambitiously inclusive addition to a growing booklist of youth-oriented racial equity work, but the concluding four c s of changemaking cogency, compassion, creativity, collaboration are on full display here in a standout text." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"[A] book that illuminate[s] how each of us are gradually drafted into the thinking, the lies and distorted truths which can render a person unable or at least unwilling to challenge the systems and practices which masquerade as normal, as functional and fair. In reality, many of those systems drive and sustain vast inequality along with pervasive belief in group inferiority or superiority. [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." Time Magazine