African Americans
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Monster
$12.99 Read moreLarge Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: January 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1432873415
- Language: English
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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
$20.95 Read moreThis historical fiction picture book reveals the unknown story of Lilly Ann Granderson, an African-American teacher who risked her life to teach others during slavery.
Born into slavery around 1821 in
- Author: Halfmann, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1620141639
- Language: English
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Mary’s Idea
$19.99 Add to cartTwo-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka captures the sound, passion, innovation, and love of the arts that the renowned jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams shared with the world. Mary’s Idea is a stu
- Author: Raschka, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063210509
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
$18.00 Add to cartLangston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America–the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning w… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 1990
- ISBN10: 067972818X
- Language: English
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The Dark Place
$18.99 Add to cartSelected as a recommended title by the Kansas National Education Association’s Reading Circle Commission!
Every secret comes to haunt you in this YA horror that combines the swoony romance and emotion- Author: Lewis, Britney S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1368077730
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
$23.00 Add to cartThe definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine).
Here, for th- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679764089
- Language: English
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Jayylen’s Juneteenth Surprise
$5.99 Add to cartThis inspiring Little Golden Book tells the story of one young boy’s first experience celebrating Juneteenth.
When Jayylen’s grandfather, Paw Paw Jimmy, begins preparing for a big Juneteenth celebrati- Series: Little Golden Book
- Author: Lavette, Lavaille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0593568141
- Language: English
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Ron’s Big Mission
$18.99 Add to cartNine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of So
- Author: Blue, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0525478493
- Language: English
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M.C. Higgins, the Great
$7.99 Read moreDiscover this transcendent middle grade masterpiece about a young black boy whose quiet rural live in the Appalachian Mountains begins to change–winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award,
- Author: Hamilton, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 1416914072
- Language: English
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Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
$19.99 Add to cartA stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn’t know how old he is. Nob… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 10 2008
- ISBN10: 043977733X
- Language: English
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The Reckoning
$18.99 Read moreA powerful contemporary novel about an aspiring 12 year-old filmmaker whose world is turned upside down when his grandfather is slain in a senseless and racist act of violence. From the author of the … [more below]
- Author: Hudson, Wade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593647777
- Language: English
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All Good in the Hood
$18.99 Add to cartThis bounce-to-the-beat picture book by America’s favorite rapping teacher from Chicago is a tribute to the sights and sounds of a city neighborhood and the special bond between brothers as they help
- Author: Reed, Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316461989
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
$5.99 Add to cartThe most effective method used to influence children to read is to incorporate the information that interests them the most. National Geographic Readers are educational, high-interest, and comprehensi… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1426310870
- Language: English
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Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
$26.99 Add to cartA soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people’s spiritual and scientific connection to the land, waters, and climate, curated by the acclaimed author of Farming
- Author: Penniman, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063160897
- Language: English
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The Seventh Most Important Thing
$8.99 Add to cartThis “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.
NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS
AN ALA NO- Author: Pearsall, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0553497316
- Language: English
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Double Life
$17.95 Read moreWhen several of Diamond’s people turn up dead, things become more complicated when her police contact tells her that her own alter ego, Alexis, is a person of interest in one of their deaths. It cause… [more below]
- Author: Zari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565548
- Language: English
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Ty’s Travels: Zip, Zoom!
$5.99 Add to cartTy can’t wait to ride his brand-new scooter at the park. Other kids zip and zoom by like race cars, but all Ty can do is wobble! Ty wants to give up, but a new friend helps Ty give it another try. A 2
- Series: My First I Can Read
- Author: Lyons, Kelly Starling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062951092
- Language: English
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The Secret to a Southern Wedding
$18.99 Read moreAn emotional and witty story of love, forgiveness, and second chances as the race to the wedding day begins…
It’s been years since Dr. Imani Kemp has returned home to Peachtree Cove, Georgia. As Tall… [more below]
- Series: Peachtree Cove
- Author: Williams, Synithia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1335430539
- Language: English
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
$18.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – “A stunning expos? of why Black people in our society ‘live sicker and die quicker’–an eye-opening game changer.”–Oprah Daily
From an award-winning writer at the New York Ti… [more below]- Author: Villarosa, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0525566228
- Language: English
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Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote
$18.99 Add to cart“Ida B. Wells is featured in this picture-book biography for another one of her passionate causes: women’s suffrage.” —Booklist
“A tribute to a tireless African American journalist and crusader for- Author: Johnson, Dinah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0316322474
- Language: English
