In The Price of Mercy, a former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America's criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite—and offering a blueprint for finally fixing it. #GoddardBookPrizes

Please join us in congratulating The Price of Mercy by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social for @crownpublishing.bsky.social! It is shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes

A timely and inspiring picture book, From the Fields to the Fight is a biography of Jessica Govea Thorbourne, a Latina labor activist who worked alongside Dolores Huerta to bring attention to the plight of migrant farmworkers. #GoddardBookPrizes

Congrats to From the Fields to the Fight, written by @angelapadron.bsky.social and illustrated by @solsticeillo.bsky.social for @simonandschuster.bsky.social. It has been shortlisted for our Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice! #GoddardBookPrizes

Congratulations to A Trip to the Barbershop by Charles R. Smith Jr. for Reycraft Books! It's shortlisted for our Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes

Motherhood Discounted interrogates the idea that independence is always good and dependence is always bad. It asks why the US has such a problem offering social support for care work when mothering is the essential work of reproducing society. #GoddardBookPrizes

Applause, please, for Motherhood Discounted by Carolyn McConnell for She Writes Press! It's on the shortlist for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes

A beautiful book for middle-grade readers, All About Us features profiles of twenty children and adults who live with disabilities. #GoddardBookPrizes

Please join us in congratulating All About Us by Hannalora Leavitt and Stef Wong for @orcabook.bsky.social! It's been shortlisted for our Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes

Before Their Crimes is a ground-breaking book that sheds new light on the relationship of childhood trauma and juvenile crime. #GoddardBookPrizes

Congrats to Before Their Crimes by Dr. Wendy B. Smith for @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social! It's been named to the shortlist for our Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes

Advancing Peace explores how a community-based approach to ending gun violence truly works, and how it holds out genuine hope and proven solutions for American cities. #GoddardBookPrizes

Congratulations to Advancing Peace by Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan for @mitpress.bsky.social. It made the shortlist for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice! #GoddardBookPrizes

🥁 Time to unveil the shortlists for our Goddard Riverside @cbcbooks.bsky.social Youth Book Prize for Social Justice & Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice! These books celebrate the power of the written word to create change in the name of justice for all. #GoddardBookPrizes

Join us at 1 pm today as we roll out the shortlists for our youth and adult social justice book prizes! #GoddardBookPrizes