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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."
-Dr. Seuss
-Dr. Seuss
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K-2nd
3rd-5th
3rd-5th
6th-8th
6th-8th
When a young boy, who is being teased for looking different, asks his mother why he cannot be more like everyone else, she helps him see how beautiful being different can be.
By: Taye Diggs
It is Grandmother Bibi's ninetieth birthday and when she travels to Tanzania from America to visit her son and grandchildren they surprise her with a birthday safari.
By: Sharon Robinson
Brown Girl Dreaming is about a young girl raised in South Carolina and New York, she always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Natalie is an African-American girl whose natural hair "couldn't be tamed by a comb or a pick or restrained by barrettes or a clip." She loves its wildness, but so do a zoo's worth of animals, who gradually take up residence in her tresses
By: Laura Freeman
Nine-year-old Mya is excited about participating in School Spirit Week, even making a pinky promise with her best friend Naomi to be her partner, but when she accidentally gets paired with the biggest bully in school, Mean Connie, Naomi is mad at Maya for breaking her promise, so she must learn to work with Mean Connie and try and get her friend back.
By: Crystal Allen
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
By: Jason Reynolds
Mike has awesome hair. He has LOTS of energy! His parents love him. And Mike is a PERFECT blend of the two of them.Still, Mike has to answer LOTS of questions about being mixed. And he does, with LOTS of energy and joy in this charming story about a day in the life of a mixed-race child.
By: Taye Diggs
Thanks to his dad, Josh and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court, with crossovers that make even the toughest ballers cry. But Josh has more than hoops in his blood. He's got a river of rhymes flowing through him - a sick flow that helps him find his rhythm when everything's on the line.
By: Kwame Alexander
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"-- Provided by publisher.
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
By: Sharon Flake
Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
By: Nnedi Okorafor
Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
By: Derrick D. Barnes
When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum lead to rumors that the museum is being haunted by the ghost of a Pterosaur, ten-year-old Wilson Kipper and his friends set out to solve the mystery.
By: Steven Brezenoff
Eleven-year-old Ada and her friends face zombie rabbits, alien mobs, and Puppet Cartels as they explore their small New Mexico town seeking Ada's missing twin sister.
By: Sarah Cannon
Little girls pretending to be princesses celebrate the different shapes, textures, and styles of their black hair.
By: Sharee Miller
Lily Brown is a bright, curious, energetic young girl from Queens, New York. When her mom forces her to stay home for the summer and do chores, Lily fumes. Little did she know that the greasy oven in the kitchen was going to give her more excitement and adventure than she could possibly handle .
By: Micheline Hess
A group of high school students grows in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.
By: Nikki Grimes
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia. .
By: Ellen Levine
When his mother takes in a twelve-year-old foster boy, Jarrett is forced to share his room and his friends with the new boy.
By: Coe Booth
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
By: Rita Williams-Garcia
When she accidentally leaves her journal in Tiffany's apartment, Keena is afraid that Tiffany will reveal all of her secrets.
By: Melissa Thomson
Much of what twenty-first century culture tells black girls is not pretty: Don't wear this; don't smile at that. Don't have an opinion; don't dream big. And most of all, don't love yourself. In response to such destructive ideas, poet Mahogany Browne challenges the conditioning of society by crafting an anthem of strength and magic undeniable in its bloom for all beautiful Black girls.
By: Mahogany Browne
In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret must uncover the truth behind a series of private middle school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States.
By: James Ponti
A picture book adaptation of Langston Hughes' beloved poem celebrates the endearing love between a mother and a baby and is complemented by painted collage illustrations, a biographical note and recommendations for further reading.
By: Langston Hughes
While Ms. Shelby-Ortiz is recovering from an injury, substitute Mr. Willow takes over Nikki and Deja's third-grade class with disastrous results.
By: Karen English
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
By: David Barclay Moore
Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
By: Grace Byers
Readers will trace King James's career from his days as a high school superstar in Akron, Ohio, to his back-to-back NBA championships with the Miami Heat. They will also learn about LeBron's charitable activities off-the-court and find out what he is planning for the future.
By: Marie Morreale
Working on an assignment for her journalism class, Brianna Justice learns about coding, and the difference between herself and a group of inner city girls.
By: Sherri Winston
Hailing from the Tremâe neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
By: Troy Andrews
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
By: Angela Johnson
Highlights the life and career of the young musician from Atlanta who used social media to start his career and who performed at the White House before the 2016 Easter Egg Roll.
By: Alisha Gabriel
Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.
By: Chris Barton
Kayla must salvage her double Dutch dreams after her parents' rocky relationship takes her away from Brooklyn - and her beloved team - to spend the summer in North Carolina.
By: Doreen Spicer-Dannelly
An account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
By: Steve Sheinkin
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall, is a collection of poems celebrating African-American fathers.
By: Various Authors
In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test.
By: James Patterson
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
By: Nikki Grimes
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