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Jay Jay’s Grannie’s house is the place to be as his extended family gathers for a delicious, plentiful Sunday dinner!
A mixed-race girl describes characteristics she has inherited from both her parents as well as their varied tastes, and how her family feels “just right.”
When your tooth falls out in Mali, the tooth fairy doesn’t give you money, she gives you chickens!
Best friends have a “never-going to-be-friends-again day.”
Loving parents share the gifts of our natural world with their baby.
A slave girl poetically describes the urgency of her escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
A young sharecropper longs to ride with legendary train engineer, Casey Jones, and leave his hard life behind.
A sensitive photo study that celebrates the variety of skin tones, hair textures, and eye colors among African American children.
Maleek saves his city parks with a little bit of science and a lot of imagination in this charming tale with black and white photos.
This lyrically-written autobiographical story relates the importance of quilting in Woodson’s family history.
Guided by his own “Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life,” 10-year-old Bud treks through Michigan in 1936, searching for the father he’s never known.
After gaining her freedom, a 12-year-old stays on the plantation to work for wages, but dreams of becoming a teacher. In the Dear America series.
In the Reconstruction South, a spirited girl finally convinces her parents to let her walk the seven miles to school with her brothers.
The truth about 14-year-old Marley’s family comes out in a mysterious letter.
With her mother in prison, her aunt put out by her presence, and taunted by the local gang, Patrice longs to win a scholarship to a prestigious African-American boarding school.
A slave auction is seen through the eyes of its many participants.
Young Jolie overcomes her fears and attends a summer Freedom School in Mississippi in 1964.
Exciting story about Stephen Bishop who as a 17-year-old slave in the late 1830s led tours by candlelight and mapped out every detail of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky./
Engaging journal of a girl’s family vacation visiting black historical sites along the east coast.
Four inner-city kids join their “dead-end” middle school math club in an attempt to win a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Based on an actual event.
The adventures of a boy whose mother has given him a plot in the community garden become thornier after he clips a rose from the local cemetery.
The adventures of a boy whose mother has given him a plot in the community garden become thornier after he clips a rose from the local cemetery. In this prequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Paul Logan works many jobs in pursuit of his dream to own land in late 1860s Georgia.
Fully illustrated tale from the award-winning collection of American Black folktales of the same name.
Humorous variant on “The Three Sillies,” in which a man travels the world to find three people as foolish as his fiancée and her parents.
A modern retelling with realistic watercolor paintings brings new life to this tall tale hero.
Nine humorous and scary tall tales inspired by the author’s childhood memories of family storytelling times.
A human-sized boy, born into a family of giants, must prove to his parents that he’s fine the way he is.
Children in a Chicago neighborhood are reintroduced in this newly illustrated collection of poems by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
In his most recent collection of African American spirituals, Bryan uses brilliant cut-paper collages to interpret three well-known songs.
Three centuries of African American history are laid out in 36 poems by 25 poets.
Poems and brief biographies of the poets introduce this significant period of artistic achievement by African Americans.
Here is a poetic father/son tribute to jazz, a companion to their Blues Journey.
This well-known spiritual is beautifully illustrated with a San Francisco backdrop.
First person accounts, songs, and poems complement this chronicle of black history in America from 1955-1965.
Two Hughes scholars present 26 poems with brief notes as well as a biography of the noted poet.
As a young girl, the author met influential African Americans who came to her home, including Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and Dizzy Gillespie.
Freedman clearly sets Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white man in the context of the South and the times.
The life of this 20th century artist as reflected in his art.
Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court summary for Brown v Board of Education, Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and Lauryn Hill’s hip-hop lyrics are included in the 34 selections.
Colorful introduction to African dance traditions through the work of the Harlem, New York-based dance troupe Batoto Yetu.
A premier African American painter dramatically records the history of his people in art.
In simple terms that children can understand, Lester explains how we are all the same under our skin.
Mary McLeod Bethune and Shirley Chisholm are among those highlighted in 10 lively portraits that span African American history.
Both artwork and rhyming text make these examples of segregation understandable for younger children.
Freedman clearly sets Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white man in the context of the South and the times.
This autobiography recalls the story of one 6-year-old girl who integrated her neighborhood’s all-white school in 1960.
An exciting chronicle of the escape of a married slave couple from the deep South to Boston, then to England.
Handsome photo biography of the renowned singer and her historic 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
Poetic picture book account that presents both a personal and political view of this remarkable woman.
A mail carrier from Savannah, Georgia, Law organized non-violent protests against segregation and worked for better communication between blacks and whites.
Malcolm X’s own words are used to present the often controversial ideas put forth by this crusader for black self-determination.
Introduction to King’s life and words, with a chronology and breathtaking collage illustrations.
The daughter of the first African American to play major league baseball tells his life story.
Picture book glimpse at the life of the freed slave who became a passionate abolitionist.
Luminous illustrations highlight this account of Tubman’s initial escape from slavery and the faith that sustained her.
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