Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone

For readers of This Book is Antiracist by Tiffany Jewell and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Ibram X Kendi and Jason Reynolds, TROUBLEMAKER offers an INNOVATIVE FRAMEWORK SPECIFICALLY FOR TEENS that EMPOWERS YOUNG READERS to reassess what it means to live and act in a manner that dismantles racism. Just as Kendi does in the adult edition, TROUBLEMAKER will weave history, science, law, and personal stories to help kids understand complicated concepts about race and help them on their own antiracist journeys. Kendi doesn't talk about being antiracist as something you ARE but something you DO in every choice you make.

In collaboration with BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR NIC STONE, this book is written with teens in mind, and will offer kids a way to have conversations with both their peers and the adults in their life. It will provide POWERFUL PROMPTS for CROSS-GENERATIONAL CONVERSATIONS that center the experiences of young people.

Kendi has become TRUSTED AND PROMINENT AUTHORITY ON ANTIRACISM, with four books on The New York Times best seller list on the subject of racism and antiracism.

This book speaks to a national reckoning taking place on the racism embedded in our culture. Readers are hungry for books that provide a blueprint for HOW TO CREATE A MORE JUST AND EQUAL SOCIETY -one free of racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia. This book offers intersectional solutions and new ways to challenge biased behavior.

Kendi writes for The Atlantic and is a correspondent at CBS News. He has appeared as a commentator on NBC, CNN,and NPR. He's a thinker and author with AN IMPRESSIVE PLATFORM; he's been profiled in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Publishers Weekly. In 2020, he was named him one of the 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD BY TIME MAGAZINE.

With this collaboration, Kendi's academic bonafides join Stone's ability to SPEAK ENGAGINGLY TO TEENS. In Nic Stone, we have a bestselling, award-winning author who is known and BELOVED BY BOOKSELLERS, TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS AND TEEN READERS.

His GROWING PROFILE IN CHILDREN'S MEDIA can be seen in the success of ANTIRACIST BABY, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and has SOLD OVER 450,000 COPIES across formats in six months, and with the success of STAMPED, the young reader's remix of his adult book, co-authored by bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Kendi recently announced he is PARTNERING WITH NETFLIX on adaptations of three of his books, Stamped From the Beginning; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You; and ANTIRACIST BABY. ANTIRACIST BABY will be adapted into a series of musical animated shorts.