BLACK HISTORY MONTH Children's Book List

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
            Children's Book List
J-Fiction
 The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus

 Like Vanessa by Tami Charles

 Leaving Lymon by Lesa Cline-Ransome

 New Kid by Jerry Craft

 Blended by Sharon Draper
 The Girls of Gettysburg by Bobbi Miller

 My Year in the Middle by Lila Quintero
 A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee

 As Brave as You Are by Jason Reynolds
 Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
 Root Magic by Eden Royce

 Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz
 Clean Getaway by Nic Stone

 Just South of Home by Karen Strong
 Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson
 Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

 Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
           Children's Book List
E Books
  I Am Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown

  I Am Enough by Grace Byers

  Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about
  Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano

  Hair Love by Matthew Cherry

  Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon

  Yellow Dog Blue by Alice Faye Duncan

  Me and the Boss by Michelle Edwards
  Honeysmoke by Monique Fields

  Whoever You Are by Mem Fox
  Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin

  Little Black Boy by Kirby Howell-Baptiste
  Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
  Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons

  Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller

  Saturday by Oge Mora
  Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
           Children's Book List
E Books
  All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

  Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey

  Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Amanda Redd

  Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson

  Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thomkins-Bigelow
  Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History
  by Schele Williams
  Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson

  The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  The People Remember by Ibi Aanu Zoboi

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
            Children's Book List
Nonfiction
  Sing, Aretha, sing!: Aretha Franklin, "Respect," and the Civil
  Rights Movement by Hanif Abdurraqib

  Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Boy by
  Emmanuel Acho

  The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

  The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the
  United States by Alliah Agostini
  A Child's Introduction to African American History: the
  Experiences, People, and Events that Shaped Our Country
  by Jabari Asim

  Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? by Bonnie Bader
  Speak up, Speak out!: the Extraordinary Life of "Fighting
  Shirley Chisholm" by Tonya Bolden

  This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for
  School Equality by JoAnn Allen Boyce
  This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
  Infinite Hope: a Black Artist's Journey from World War II to
  Peace by Ashley Bryan

  Seeking Freedom: the Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and
  the Ending of Slavery in America by Selene Castrovilla
  Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Francesca Cavallo

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
             Children's Book List
Nonfiction
  Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter by
  Veronica Chambers
  Finish the Fight!: the Brave and Revolutionary Women who
  Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers

  Claudette Colvin by lesa Cline-Ransome

  Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty
  Copeland

  The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
  King of Ragtime: the Story of Scott Joplin by Stephen
  Costanza

  Lifting As We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot
  Box by Evette Dionne

  Enough!: 20 Protesters Who Changed America by Emily
  Easton

  Who is Barack Obama? by Roberta Edwards
  Who was Ida B. Wells? by Sarah Fabiny

  Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki
  Grimes

  Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to
  Freedom by Virginia Hamilton

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
           Children's Book List
Nonfiction
 Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti
 Harrison
 Ablaze with Color: a Story of Painter Alma Thomas by
 Jeanne Walker Harvey

 A Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the
 First Memorial Day by Leah Henderson

 Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson

 Sprouting Wings: the True Story of James Herman Banning,
 the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United
 States by Louisa Jaggar

 This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
 Her Epic Adventure: 25 Daring Women Who Inspire a Life
 Less Ordinary by Julia De Laurentiis Johnston
 Reaching for the Moon: the Autobiography of NASA
 Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine G. Johnson

 What Were the Negro Leagues? by Varian Johnson
 The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-
 Jones
 Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter by Shani M. King
 A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story by Sharon Langley

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
           Children's Book List
Nonfiction
 Resistance to Slavery: From Escape to Everyday Rebellion
 by Cicely Lewis
 Kids On the March: 15 stories of Speaking Out, Protesting,
 and Fighting for Justice by Michael G. Long

 The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership,
 and Legacy by Kekla Magoon
 Ruby Bridges by Kekla Magoon
 What Was the Underground Railroad? by Yonis Sldis
 McDonough
 More Than Just A Game: the Black Origins of Basketball by
 Madison Moore

 Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
 by Kadir Nelson

 A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis by
 Matt de la Pena

 Duke Ellington: the Piano Prince and His Orchestra by
 Andrea Davis Pinkney
 Lift As You Climb: the Story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby
 Powell
 The Voice That Challenged A Nation: Marian Anderson and
 the Struggle for Equal Rights by Jewell Parker Rhodes
 Child of the Dream: a Memoir of 1963 by Sharon Robinson

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
           Children's Book List
Nonfiction
 Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
 Song for Jimi: the Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix by
 Charles R Smith

 Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith
 What is the Civil Rights Movement? by Sherri L. Smith

 The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
 Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd

 The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed
 History by Sandra Neil Wallace

 Maya's Song by Renee Watson
 Oprah Winfrey by Renee Watson
 Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford

 Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil
 Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
 Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston
 Weatherford
 Who was?: Heroes of black history : Frederick Douglass,
 Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Harriet
 Beecher Stowe, Underground Railroad by Who was--?

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
            Children's Book List
Nonfiction
  R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole
  Boston Weatherford
  Shirley Chisholm Dared: the Story of the First Black woman
  in Congress by Alicia Williams

  Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black
  Life