African Americans
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Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
$12.95 Add to cartThe true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.
Growing up a slave in South Carolin
- Author: Halfmann, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1600609864
- Language: English
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The Honest-To-Goodness Truth
$8.99 Read moreFrom Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack comes a humorous and poignant picture book about the right time to tell the truth.
“Tell the truth and shame the devil,” Libby’s mama- Series: Avenues
- Author: McKissack, Patricia C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0689853955
- Language: English
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Finna: Poems
$17.00 Read moreSharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular–its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its inti… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593132459
- Language: English
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Parker Dresses Up: Ready-To-Read Level 1
$18.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling team behind Parker Looks Up returns with this Level 1 Ready-to-Read about the fun of dressing up and dreaming big!
Parker is playing dress up with her younger siblings,- Series: A Parker Curry Book
- Author: Curry, Parker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1665902566
- Language: English
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Incendiary Art: Poems
$22.00 Read moreWinner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category
Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0810134330
- Language: English
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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
$19.99 Read moreThe story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black entomologist — a scientist who studies bugs — is told in this fascinating book for young readers.
Can spiders learn? How do ants find their way hom- Author: Harrington, Janice N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1629795585
- Language: English
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Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky
$8.99 Read moreThe main character of Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Honor winner Tar Beach takes flight once again, encountering Harriet Tubman and learning about the Underground Railroad.
Cassie, who flew a- Author: Ringgold, Faith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0517885433
- Language: English
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Black All Around
$11.95 Read moreA young girl discovers all the wonderful and beautiful things around her that are black.
Look high,
look low,
look everywhere …
The wonderful color black is there!Join a young girl as she discovers a
- Author: Hubbell, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1600606431
- Language: English
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
$18.99 Add to cartOne Last Word is the work of a master poet. –Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grime- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1619635542
- Language: English
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Black Girl Rising
$16.99 Read moreThis enduring anthem for Black girls celebrates their power, potential, and brilliance–for themselves and for the world.
You are a thousand curls
unfurling in your hair.
You are a thousand fists
standin- Author: Barnes, Brynne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1452164878
- Language: English
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Mrs. Katz and Tush
$8.99 Add to cartFriends from different backgrounds come together in a heartwarming picture book that is perfect for Passover, from beloved children’s book author Patricia Polacco
Larnel doesn’t know his neighbor, M- Series: Dell Picture Yearling
- Author: Polacco, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0440409365
- Language: English
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Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of “Brave Bessie” Coleman
$7.99 Read moreThe story of Bessie Coleman becoming the first licensed African American aviator is sure to inspire readers to follow their own dreams.
As a young black woman in the 1920s, Bessie Coleman’s chances of- Author: Lindbergh, Reeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 06 1998
- ISBN10: 0763603619
- Language: English
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The Scrumptious Life of Azaleah Lane
$15.99 Add to cartMama and Daddy are heading out of town, which means Azaleah and her sisters get to spend the weekend at Auntie Sam’s. The girls can’t wait for their special weekend! Azaleah even decides to bake cooki… [more below]
- Series: Azaleah Lane
- Author: Felix, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1515844668
- Language: English
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Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
$18.99 Read moreFrom Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance–paired with fu
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1681199440
- Language: English
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Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope
$17.99 Add to cartJodie Patterson, activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, shares her transgender son’s experience in this important picture book about identity and acceptance.
Penelope knows- Author: Patterson, Jodie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0593123638
- Language: English
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Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel
$17.99 Read moreIbi Zoboi, a National Book Award Finalist and New York Times best-selling author, joins Marvel Universe storytelling with this heartfelt novel that takes Okoye to America for the very first time.
Bef- Author: Zoboi, Ibi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1368046975
- Language: English
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Vip: Dr. Mae Jemison: Brave Rocketeer
$9.99 Read moreSoar to the stars with Dr. Mae Jemison in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the true–and ama
- Series: VIP
- Author: Alexander, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889702
- Language: English
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The Women Could Fly
$26.99 Read moreReminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times–a piercing dystopian novel
- Author: Giddings, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0063116995
- Language: English
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Uptown
$9.99 Read moreCoretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier discovers the vibrant world of Harlem, New York, as seen through the eyes of a little boy
Uptown . . .
Harlem, New York.
Chicken and waffles.
Ja- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Collier, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 080507399X
- Language: English
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Trap Queen
$8.99 Read moreA childhood tragedy is the fuel for Lihanny’s ambition, but getting to the top is never easy, especially for a woman in the streets.
At a young age, Lihanny’s life was forever altered when, after the- Author: Davis, Christine N.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1645564894
- Language: English
