People & Places - United States - African American & Black
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Futureland: Battle for the Park
$8.99 Add to cartWhen an extraordinary flying theme park arrives above Atlanta, one boy must stop a sinister force from stealing the park’s tech and taking over the world. An electrifying illustrated series with the A… [more below]
- Series: Futureland
- Author: Hunter, H. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593479459
- Language: English
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The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
$19.99 Add to cartCoretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children’s Book, CCBC Best Children’s Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, Kirkus Best Children’s Books, NCTE Notable
In the 1930s, L
- Series: Carolrhoda Picture Books
- Author: Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0761339434
- Language: English
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Bayou Magic
$7.99 Add to cartA magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist.
It’s city-… [more below]- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0316224855
- Language: English
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Daddy Speaks Love
$17.99 Add to cartA moving tribute to the joy and grounding that fathers bring to their children’s lives.
What does a daddy do? From day one, this daddy speaks love to his little one. And along with that love, his word- Author: Henderson, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593354362
- Language: English
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We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
$9.99 Read moreGrowing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George, and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at t… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Sampson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0142406279
- Language: English
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Shante Keys and the New Year’s Peas
$9.99 Add to cartShant Keys loves New Year’s Day But while Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens, and cornbread, she forgot the black-eyed peas Oh no–it’ll be bad luck without them So Shant sets out to borro
- Author: Piernas-Davenport, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0807573310
- Language: English
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John Henry: An American Legend
$8.99 Add to cartCaldecott Medalist Ezra Jack Keats’s vibrant retelling of the popular African American folk ballad.
Have you heard the tale? John Henry was born with a hammer in his hand. He was taller and stronger t- Author: Keats, Ezra Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 12 1987
- ISBN10: 394890523
- Language: English
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I Am Born to Be Awesome!
$5.99 Add to cartBeautiful Black and Brown boys are the stars in this level 1 Step Into Reading book from the Happy Hair series. It’s a bright, joyful easy reader that will have boys everywhere saying “I am born to be… [more below]
- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Roe, Mechal Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0593433211
- Language: English
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My Dad Is a DJ
$18.99 Add to cartNational Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine teams up with Keith Henry Brown on this lyrical picture book that celebrates music and Black identity.
Trevor’s dad is a DJ, and he always picks the best mus- Author: Erskine, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 374307423
- Language: English
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Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale
$17.99 Add to cartA clever, Black contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, Mahogany embraces the beauty–and magic–within herself to thwart the Big Bad Wolf.
Mahogany is a spunky girl who loves to sew, listen to- Author: Brown-Wood, Janay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1623543673
- Language: English
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100 Things to Know about Planet Earth
$14.99 Add to cartDid you know that rain sometimes falls red? Or that the equivalent of one truckload of plastic is dumped in our oceans every minute? This visually stunning book is filled with 100 fascinating facts, b
- Series: 100 Things to Know
- Author: Martin, Jerome
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 1805318438
- Language: English
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Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave
$12.99 Add to cart“A fascinating story.” –LeVar Burton
The thrilling adventures of a slave who became known worldwide for his explorations of Mammoth Cave.
If you toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the year 1838, you- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 1504057708
- Language: English
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Get on the Ice, Mo!
$15.99 Add to cartMo hits the ice in the next title in the perenially popular, Geisel Award-winning series by David A. Adler!
Mo and his dad are practicing before the big ice hockey game against the Ducks later that da- Series: Mo Jackson
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593352742
- Language: English
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Chocolate Me!
$8.99 Read moreA timely book about how it feels to be teased and taunted, and how each of us is sweet and lovely and delicious on the inside, no matter how we look.
The boy is teased for looking different than the o- Author: Diggs, Taye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068010
- Language: English
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Black Gold
$18.99 Add to cart“Obuobi pens an origin story that’s at once earthly and impressively cosmic, an ethereal children’s debut that centers a Black child’s beginnings.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Lyrical, empow
- Author: Obuobi, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063015765
- Language: English
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Milo Imagina El Mundo
$18.99 Add to cartMilo hace un largo viaje en metro. Para pasar el tiempo, observa a la gente a su alrededor y hace dibujos de c mo se imagina que son sus vidas.
Est el hombre de bigotes con un crucigrama; Milo lo di- Author: de la Pe?a, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593354621
- Language: Spanish
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X: A Novel
$10.99 Add to cartA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Malcolm
Cowritten by Malcolm X’s daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.- Author: Shabazz, Ilyasah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0763690929
- Language: English
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We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963
$17.99 Read moreThe powerful story of an eleven-year-old Black boy determined to stand up for his rights, who’s pulled into the action of the 1963 civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rufus Jackson Jon- Author: Moses, Shelia P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593407482
- Language: English
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963: 25th Anniversary Edition
$11.99 Add to cartDuring one of the most important times in the civil rights movement, one unforgettable family goes on a road trip in this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree, from author Christopher Paul Curtis, r… [more below]
- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 059330649X
- Language: English
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Born Driven
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the true story of the first African American NASCAR champion Wendell Scott, Born Driven is an uplifting tale celebrating the power of persistence and big dreams.
Like many other boys, Wendel- Author: Moore Jr, Saxton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637152469
- Language: English
