Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
$18.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed playwright comes “an American masterpiece” (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Twilight is a stunning work of “documentary theater” that explores the devastating human impac… [more below]- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0385473761
- Language: English
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Night at the Fair
$19.99 Add to cartIt’s time The gates are open, the rides are spinning-come to the fair Nighttime at the fair is magic with Caldecott Honor-winning author-artist Donald Crews. The sky goes dark and the colored lights… [more below]
- Author: Crews, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0688114830
- Language: English
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The Orchestra of Wind Chimes
$23.32 Read moreThought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.
- Author: Jacques, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814350380
- Language: English
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Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
$10.99 Add to cartEverett Anderson’s Goodbye is a touching portrait of a little boy who is trying to come to grips with his father’s death. Lucille Clifton captures Everett’s conflicting emotions as he confronts this p
- Series: Everett Anderson #4
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805008004
- Language: English
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An Apple for Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Read moreBest Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College
One day I am going to be free–and I’m going to have all the apples I want.
Like other enslaved African American children, young Harriet Tubman had
- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0807503967
- Language: English
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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
$18.95 Read moreGlennette Tilley Turner presents thestory of Fort Mose in the only picture book for children about the first free Black community in America.
In 1724, Francisco Menendez escaped from a plantation in- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0810940566
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad
$18.99 Read moreA window into a child’s experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston.
Climbing aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth E- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0823438732
- Language: English
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Black America: Historic Moments, Key Figures & Cultural Milestones from the African-American Story
$19.99 Read moreFrom slavery through the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, here is the history of Black America told through striking photographs and compelling narrative that captures many of the key joys, s
- Series: Visual History
- Author: Andrews, Kehinde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103975
- Language: English
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Moving to Neptune: New & Selected
$22.00 Read moreBraggs confronts us with a combination of hard realism and musical lyricism, painting unforgettable images in unforgettable language. This is American poetry at its finest: as spacious as Walt Whitman
- Author: Braggs, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 193469567X
- Language: English
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The Crossover
$19.99 Add to cartSeries streaming now on Disney+, with executive producers including NBA great LeBron James!
Kwame Alexander’s New York Times bestseller and Newbery Medal-winning The Crossover is vividly brought to lif
- Series: Crossover
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885794329
- Language: English
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Ed Clark: The Big Sweep: Chronicles of a Life, 1926-2019
$60.00 Read moreA visual biography of the influential American abstractionist and pioneer of the shaped canvas, with interviews, ephemera and historical documents
From his pioneering use of painting tools such as push
- Author: Clark, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 3906915778
- Language: English
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Love and the Rocking Chair
$18.99 Read moreTwo-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon celebrate the love we feel for our children in this touching, multi-generational story about the lasting power of family.
Simple words and colorful pai… [more below]
- Author: Dillon, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1338332651
- Language: English
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My Name Is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
$9.99 Read moreOften shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper’s novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 1841 to become an anti-slavery speaker, author and
- Author: Cooper, Afua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1525310852
- Language: English
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Peeny Butter Fudge
$19.99 Read moreSnuggle, snuggle.
There is no one like Nana in the whole wide world. She is the best. Nana knows how to take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra special
Time to rest.
Nana joins us in her nest.- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1416983325
- Language: English
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Buzz Beaker and the Cave Creatures
$7.99 Read moreBuzz and his dad head to a cave to test a new invention. As they explore the cave, they see crystals, snakes, and bats. Then Buzz spots something really special Maybe Buzz’s latest invention has led … [more below]
- Series: Stone Arch Readers – Level 3 (Quality))
- Author: Meister, Cari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1434227979
- Language: English
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Buzz Beaker and the Race to School
$7.99 Read moreBuzz Beaker keeps oversleeping. He misses the school bus. He wears his pajamas to school. He knows he can’t be late again, so he finds a way to win the race to school
- Series: Stone Arch Readers – Level 3 (Quality))
- Author: Meister, Cari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1434230570
- Language: English
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Sail Away
$19.99 Read moreA celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley … [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1481430858
- Language: English
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Mighty Meg 2: Mighty Meg and the Melting Menace
$6.99 Read moreIn book 2 of the Mighty Meg series, Meg must save her school from a frozen phenomenon!
Strange things are happening in Plainview! When Meg sees a wall of ice holding back a mountain of stones, she kno- Series: Mighty Meg #2
- Author: Griffin, Sammy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1499808348
- Language: English
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We Both Read-Kecko the Gecko (Pb)
$5.99 Read moreIn this humorous adventure, Matt takes his pet gecko to school, and disaster almost strikes when the gecko escapes. Matt and his friends try to catch the gecko as it runs around the classroom, hoping … [more below]
- Series: We Both Read: Level 1 (Paperback)
- Author: McKay, Sindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 160115304X
- Language: English
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Planet Middle School
$16.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author of One Last Word and Coretta Scott King award-winning Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes offers fresh novel in verse story about young heartbreak and hope.
For twelve year- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1599902842
- Language: English
