Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Mid-Air
$17.99 Add to cartA tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough and unfeeling in this stunning middle grade novel in verse from the Newbery … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Alicia D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 148146583X
- Language: English
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
$21.99 Add to cartAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a “a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)
Ma- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675460
- Language: English
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Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
$17.99 Add to cartBarnes & Noble Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Best Book of the Year
Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
4 STARRED REVIEWS
Nikki Grimes, Coretta Scott King Award winning author, and acclaimed illustrator
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1492638323
- Language: English
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Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
$19.95 Add to cartThese days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people atte… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826501761
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Girl
$8.99 Add to cartThis ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you. — R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps
Do you know what it feels like to be forgotten?
On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Dani
- Author: Brown, India Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1338317253
- Language: English
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Amanda Gorman
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Amanda Gorman, America’s astounding young poet and activist… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #75
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0711270716
- Language: English
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Wednesday Wilson Fixes All Your Problems
$15.99 Add to cartIn this second title in the early chapter book series about everyone’s favorite young entrepreneur, Wednesday Wilson is only trying to help her brother when her latest business idea strikes!
Sometim
- Series: Wednesday Wilson
- Author: Galbraith, Bree
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1525303287
- Language: English
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A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison
$19.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford comes a captivating picture book biography about the incredible life of esteemed author, editor, and activist Toni Morrison, featuring gorgeous illu
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0062911031
- Language: English
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A Home in the Barn
$19.99 Add to cartGoodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown’s words are brought to beautiful life by Caldecott Medalist Jerry Pinkney. This must-have for every child’s library is perfect for cozy wintertime readings.
“A
- Author: Brown, Margaret Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 66237874
- Language: English
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The Harlem Charade
$7.99 Add to cartFans of Chasing Vermeer will love this clever mystery about art, artifice, and the power of community.
WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE.Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from t… [more below]
- Author: Tarpley, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0545783887
- Language: English
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The U. S. Child Support System and The Black Family: How the System Destroys Black Families, Criminalizes Black Men, and Sets Black Children Up for Fa
$12.00 Add to cartBestselling author and social critic Demico Boothe shares his personal story of being wrongfully convicted of a crime, being sent to federal prison, and coming out of prison only to have to immediatel
- Author: Boothe, Demico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 29 2018
- ISBN10: 097929536X
- Language: English
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Butter Soft
$17.95 Add to cartVeteran urban author Erick S. Gray weaves a tale of college students exploring love in relationships that are exciting but might end up being more dangerous than they realize.
Nea and Amber are two co- Author: Gray, Erick S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1645565661
- Language: English
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
$53.33 Add to cartHow American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom
In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an Amer- Author: Clavin, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1479823244
- Language: English
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The Rock and the River
$8.99 Add to cartCoretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award winner
In this “taut, eloquent first novel” (Booklist, starred review), a young Black boy wrestles with conflicting notions of revolution and family loyalty as- Series: Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent
- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1416978038
- Language: English
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The Buried Bones Mystery
$6.99 Add to cartFour boys who call themselves the Black Dinosaurs dig up a mysterious box of bones in this first book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sharon M. Draper.
Ziggy and his friends- Series: Clubhouse Mysteries #1
- Author: Draper, Sharon M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1442427094
- Language: English
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The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
$19.99 Add to cart“A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present p
- Author: Mangal, Mélina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1512483753
- Language: English
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
$22.99 Add to cartA New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!
An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically–up to the present day–worked against racial justice. And a cal
- Author: Tisby, Jemar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0310113601
- Language: English
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It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit
$17.99 Read moreA hilarious new middle-grade from Justin A. Reynolds that asks: What happens when five unsupervised kids face the apocalypse under outrageously silly circumstances?
Twelve-year-old Eddie Gordon Hollowa
- Author: Reynolds, Justin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1338740229
- Language: English
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
$40.00 Add to cartIn this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of f… [more below]
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1982145099
- Language: English
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Marcus Makes a Movie
$8.99 Add to cartStand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. Perfect fo… [more below]
- Series: Marcus
- Author: Hart, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 059317917X
- Language: English
