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Across Prejudice & Racism, Emotions & Feelings, Politics & Government, and LGBTQ — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Wide Awake by David Levithan.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Wide Awake.

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What Happened to Lani Garver

Carol Plum-Ucci

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • LGBTQ

Everywhere Babies Padded Board Book — Susan Meyers

Everywhere Babies Padded Board Book

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • LGBTQ

Yes No Maybe So — Becky Albertalli

Yes No Maybe So

Becky Albertalli

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Politics & Government • LGBTQ

Trans Mission My Quest to a Beard — Alex Bertie

Trans Mission My Quest to a Beard

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • LGBTQ

Boy Meets Boy — David Levithan

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • LGBTQ • Social Themes

The Year the Maps Changed — Danielle Binks

The Year the Maps Changed

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Neither A Story about Being Who You Are — Airlie Anderson

Neither A Story about Being Who You Are

Airlie Anderson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Far from Fair — Elana K. Arnold

Elana K. Arnold

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Not Quite Snow White — Ashley Franklin

Not Quite Snow White

Ashley Franklin

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

No One Owns the Colors — Gianna Davy

No One Owns the Colors

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Boomi’s Boombox — Shanthi Sekaran

Boomi’s Boombox

Shanthi Sekaran

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy A Newbery Honor Award Winner — Gary D. Schmidt

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Gary D. Schmidt

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Gerome’s Rainbow – Story About Acceptance Gerome is Sadden by His Friends Fighting — Stephanie Lucchese Logsdon

Gerome’s Rainbow – Story About Acceptance Gerome is Sadden by His Friends Fighting

Stephanie Lucchese Logsdon

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

The Day You Begin — Jacqueline Woodson

The Day You Begin

Jacqueline Woodson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Chocolate Me! — Taye Diggs

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

The Hate U Give — Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Storybook Favorites 4 Complete Books Plus Stickers! — Bernard Waber

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Storybook Favorites 4 Complete Books Plus Stickers!

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Timid: a Graphic Novel — Jonathan Todd

Timid: a Graphic Novel

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

The Sea in Winter — Christine Day

The Sea in Winter

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown Adapted for Young Readers from the Best-Selling Novel — Heather B. Moore

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown Adapted for Young Readers from the Best-Selling Novel

Heather B. Moore

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

The Talk — Alicia D. Williams

Alicia D. Williams

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Curls — Ruth Forman

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

Neither — Airlie Anderson

Airlie Anderson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

The Boy Who Dared — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Boy Who Dared

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Emotions & Feelings • Social Themes

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Wide Awake by David Levithan. Connected by Prejudice & Racism, Emotions & Feelings, Politics & Government. Authors featured include Carol Plum-Ucci, Susan Meyers, Becky Albertalli, Alex Bertie, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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