Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
by Gloria Amescua

This visually stunning biography tells the extraordinary story of how model and teacher Luz Jiménez became “the soul of Mexico”—a living link between the indigenous Nahua and the rest of the world. 

The Turquoise Room/ El Cuarto Turquesa
by Monica Brown

A bilingual story based on the lives, dreams, and accomplishments of three generations of creative, imaginative, artistic girls as they grew up in the author's family. Un cuento bilingüe basada en la vida, los sueños y los logros de tres generaciones de niñas artísticas, creativas e imaginativas a medida que crecían en la familia de la autora.

Vinyl moon
by Mahogany L. Browne

After an incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her California home, where she finds solace and healing in a revolutionary literature course in which her classmates share their own stories of pain, joy and fortitude. 

Confessions of an alleged good girl
by Joya Goffney

When preacher's daughter Monique decides she's ready to lose her virtue but then discovers she's physically incapable, she teams up with a straight-laced girl who knows a lot about her condition and a misunderstood bad boy to find the cure. 

TJ Powar has something to prove
by Jesmeen Kaur Deo

A charming rom-com about high school debater TJ Powar who--after becoming the subject of an ugly meme--makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful, but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet. 

Toufah : the woman who inspired an African #MeToo movement
by Toufah Jallow

Presents the memoir of a courageous young woman whose public accusation of rape against the deposed president of Gambia sparked an outpouring of support on social media from other survivors of sexual violence in West Africa.

Yes! No! : a first conversation about consent
by Megan Madison

Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and imagery to introduce the concept of consent. This book serves to normalize and celebrate the experience of asking for and being asked for permission to do something involving one's body. It centers on respect for bodily autonomy, and reviews the many ways that one can say or indicate 'no.' The backmatter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion.

The billboard
by Natalie Y. Moore

The Billboard is about a fictional Black women's clinic in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly running for City Council who puts up a provocative billboard: "Abortion is genocide. The most dangerous place for a Black child is his mother's womb," spurring on the clinic to fight back with their own provocative sign: "Black women take care of their families by taking care of themselves. Abortion is self-care. #Trust Black Women." The book also has a foreword and afterword and QA with a founder of reproductive justice. As a play and book, The Billboard is a cultural force that treats abortion as more than pro-life or pro-choice.

A seed in the sun
by Aida Salazar

While working under dangerous conditions, taking care of her younger siblings and her mother, and avoiding her father's volatile temper, farm-working Lula Viramontes joins the 1965 protest for migrant workers' rights along with activist Dolores Huerta. 

Well, that was unexpected
by Jesse Q. Sutanto

When their parents secretly set them up, Sharlot Citra and George Clooney Tanuwijaya (whose father is obsessed with American celebrities) are thrown together on a trip to one of the most romantic places on earth, which leads to the unexpected.