Make Your Voice Heard! Books on Voting for Teens

Your voice matters! Learn how to make your voice heard, get inspired by historical changemakers, and more with these great books for teens.

Updated October 28, 2024
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Votes of confidence : a young person's guide to American elections
Fleischer, Jeff
Paper Book
Every two years, media coverage of American elections turns into a horse-race story about who's leading the polls and who said what when. Give young adult readers clear explanations about how our election process actually works, why it matters, and how they can become involved. Using real...
One person, no vote : how not all voters are treated equally
Anderson, Carol
Paper Book
A timely and essential history of Black voter suppression, adapted from the National Book Award longlisted adult book This young adult adaptation brings to light the shocking truth about how not every voter is treated equally. After the election of Barack Obama, a rollback of...
Painless American government
Strausser, Jeffrey.
Paper Book
Titles in Barron's Painless series are designed for middle school and high school students, helping them excel in subjects they might expect to be either hopelessly boring or excruciatingly difficult. The authors are all experienced teachers, adept at winning the hearts and minds of adolescents, and...
Steal this country : a handbook for resistance, persistence, and fixing almost anything
Styron, Alexandra
Paper Book
A walk-the-walk, talk-the-talk, hands-on, say-it-loud handbook for activist kids who want to change the world! Inspired by Abbie Hoffman's radical classic, Steal This Book, author Alexandra Styron's stirring call for resistance and citizen activism will be clearly heard by...
A user's guide to democracy : how America works
Capodice, Nick
Paper Book
From Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy, the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio's Civics 101, and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, A User's Guide to Democracy is a lively crash course in everything you should know about how the US government works. Do you know what...
Rad American history A-Z : movements & moments that demonstrate the power of the people
Schatz, Kate
Paper Book
From theNew York Timesbestselling team behindRad American Women A-Zcomes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political, social, and cultural movements in American history. "An engaging, fascinating, and necessary book that speaks truth to...
The fight to vote
Waldman, Michael
Paper Book
"Important and engaging" --The Washington Post From the president of NYU's Brennan Center for Justice and the author of The Second Amendment, the history of the long struggle to win voting rights for all citizens. In The Second Amendment, Michael...

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