Picture Books

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

Dave the Potter

by Laban Carrick Hill

Going Home with Daddy

by Kelly Starling Lyons

I Am Every Good Thing

by Derrick Barns & Gordon C James

Antiracist Baby

by Ibram X Kendi

Let It Shine

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Separate is Never Equal

by Duncan Tonatiuh

Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!

by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki

My Hair is a Garden

by Cozbi A Cabrera

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

by Ilyasah Shabazz

The Book Itch

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Radiant Child

by Javaka Steptoe

Trombone Shorty

by Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

by Derrick Barnes

Social Justice Books

A large collection of curated booklists, reviews, and articles about multicultural and social justice books

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