A St. Louis bookstore, LeftBankBooks, is devising a reading list for educators and parents, with titles including Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Walker & Company, 2008), Boy, Snow, Bird (Riverhead, 2014), and Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It (New Press, 2013), to offer to educators, parents, and to youths to understand—and discuss—what is happening in Ferguson, Missouri. The  violence, racial dynamics, and conflict has history and precedence and lends itself to talking about race, protests, figures influential in both, and the civil rights movement. The store is also "curating a list of articles, poems, and other online content to explore race in contemporary America," according to its website. LeftBankBooks has asked if you have recommendations to add to either list, tweet it to them using the hashtag #FergusonReads. (See below.)

For your list @LeftBankBooks One of my favorite books in the past few years. One Crazy Summer by @OneCrazyRita #fergusonreads — Jody Feldman (@jodyfeldman) August 19, 2014

SLJ blogger Mark Flowers recently reviewed two books about black youth in America on his blog Adult Books 4 Teens, and we here at School Library Journal have begun to curate our own booklist and media resource of recommended titles for upper middle school and high school—and younger ages. If you have a title that you think belongs on this growing list, leave us a comment. Here are some of our recommendations: