African Americans
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Hooker to Housewife
$19.99 Add to cartMeet Chantal Morgan, femme fatale of all industry chicks and arch nemesis of Tyler Blake, in this scintillating sequel to Dirty Little Secrets
Tyler Blake is off to Hollywood, the newest starlet of Ti- Author: King, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03, 2007
- ISBN10: 0312354088
- Language: English
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Courage to Run: A Story Based on the Life of Young Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Add to cartDaughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.
Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800’s. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. S
- Series: Daughters of the Faith
- Author: Lawton, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0802440983
- Language: English
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Africa’s Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States
$24.95 Read moreClassic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history
Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed m
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 081957516X
- Language: English
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Sukey and the Mermaid
$8.99 Read moreA mermaid offers a young girl a magical escape in this lushly told and luminously illustrated Coretta Scott King Honor-winning picture book.
Sukey’s new step-pa is a mean, bossy man she calls “Mister- Author: San Souci, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 068980718X
- Language: English
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Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Volume 1
$23.95 Read moreStrange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronic… [more below]
- Series: Strange Fruit #01
- Author: Gill, Joel Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938486293
- Language: English
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Rosa: (Caldecott Honor Book)
$9.99 Add to cartFifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This tribute to
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0312376022
- Language: English
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Imani and the Great Hair Experiment
$9.99 Read moreShimmer, sparkle, twirl . . . I am a creative girl!
It’s Science Fair time! Imani wants to win, but needs to find an idea that can beat the crowd-favorite volcano. Can Imani think outside of the box t
- Series: Hair Magic (Read Woke (Tm) Chapter Books)
- Author: Lewis, Cicely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765624210
- Language: English
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Deceitful Vows
$16.95 Add to cartA wife has had enough of her husband’s cheating ways, but he isn’t willing to let her go without a fight.
Paula Smith Harris has learned that the man she thought was her true love isn’t exactly who he- Author: Dekane, Trinity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1645564223
- Language: English
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Impossible Moon
$18.99 Add to cartA young girl undertakes an impossible trip to the moon, makes friends with the stars, and brings back something priceless in this gentle and lyrically told picture book about family, history, and memo… [more below]
- Author: McDaniel, Breanna J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1534478973
- Language: English
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Who Was Booker T. Washington?
$6.99 Add to cartLearn how a slave became one of the leading influential African American intellectuals of the late 19th century.
African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United Sta- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0448488515
- Language: English
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Your House Will Pay
$18.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
“[A] suspense-filled page-turner.” –Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer
“A touching portrait of two families bound together by
- Author: Cha, Steph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062868845
- Language: English
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I Am Harriet Tubman
$16.99 Add to cartHarriet Tubman’s heroic and pivotal role in the fight against slavery is the subject of the fourteenth picture book in this New York Times bestselling biography series. (Cover may vary)
This friendly,- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 073522871X
- Language: English
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The Cost of Knowing
$12.99 Add to cartFour starred reviews!
Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he for- Author: Morris, Brittney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1534445463
- Language: English
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All American Boys
$19.99 Add to cartA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature.
In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens–one b- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1481463330
- Language: English
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Ophie’s Ghosts
$16.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2001 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation makes her middle grade debut with a sweeping tale of the ghosts of our past that won’t
- Author: Ireland, Justina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0062915894
- Language: English
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I Am Jackie Robinson
$16.99 Read more“We can all be heroes” is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this title focusing on groundbreaking baseball player, Jackie Robinson … [more below]
- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0803740867
- Language: English
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Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show
$18.99 Add to cartNewbery Honoree Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez–the team behind Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library–reunite to take full measure of an iconic performer and … [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1536212970
- Language: English
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Rain Rising
$9.99 Add to cartAn inspiring debut middle grade novel-in-verse about Rain, who must overcome sadness after her all-star brother is badly beaten up at a frat party. Genesis Begins Again meets Brown Girl Dreaming in th
- Author: Comrie, Courtne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 63159716
- Language: English
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MIA Mayhem vs. the Super Bully
$6.99 Add to cartMia and her best friends are up against a major super bully in this third adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series!
When a super annoying villain (who’s actually another superhero) arrives at T- Series: MIA Mayhem #3
- Author: West, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1534444734
- Language: English
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Slay
$19.99 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019
“Gripping and timely.” —People
“The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the … [more below]- Author: Morris, Brittney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1534445420
- Language: English
