The Rising Voices Library was built to provide students with high-interest, culturally relevant texts that give context to experiences happening in the world around them. These materials build a rich classroom community, enabling deep discussion around social justice and identity development, while giving students the tools to grow as leaders and thinkers.

Featuring a mix of nonfiction, biographies, and culturally-relevant fiction, Scholastic has partnered with David C. Banks to curate a library that highlights stories of the most underrepresented literary protagonists in our classrooms: boys of color. By fostering a classroom community that supports positive representation and equity, students of all backgrounds will benefit from widening the scope of their world in books and beyond.

Each grade level set includes:

- 25 titles per grade (2 copies of each; including 5 Mentor Texts)

- Teaching Cards (1 per mentor text)

- Teacher's Guide

- Storage Bins

- Book Stickers