Brandy Colbert (A)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Coming of Age / Self Awareness – 2019) 

From Stonewall Award winner Brandy Colbert comes a novel about first love, family, and hidden secrets that will stay with you long after turning the last page.

Dove “Birdie” Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow…

Elzabeth Acevedo (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Poetry / Finding Her Voice – 2018)

National Book Award and Golden Kite Honor Award Winner!

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her…

Steve Sheinkin (A)

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Social Justice / Military / Mutiny – 2014)

An astonishing Civil Rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin.
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300…

Kofi A. Annan (A), Dudley J. Thompson (A) and Barrington A. Watson (ILT)

List Price: $15.00 (Paperback – Biographies / Pan Africanists – 2005)

This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout…

Davis Sampson (A) Rameck Hunt (A) and George Jenkins (A)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Biography / Mentoring – 2005)

The dramatic, inspiring story of three inner-city youths – Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt – whose strong friendship gave them the strength to continue…

Zakiya Dalila Harris (A)

List Price: $27.00 (Hardcover – Adult Fiction – 2021) 

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Good Morning America, Esquire, and Read with Marie ClaireBook Club Pick and a People Best Book of Summer

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Time, TheWashington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Marie…

Carter G. Woodson (A)

List Price: $9.95 (Paperback – Denounces Eurocentric Education / Supports Black Studies – First Pub. 1933)

The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American…

Amanda Gorman (A)

List Price: $15.99 (Hardcover – Presidential Inaugural Poem – 2021)

Amanda Gorman’s powerful and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.

“Stunning.” —CNN 
“Dynamic.” —NPR
“Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue

On January 20, 2021, Amanda…

Jacqueline Woodson (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biracial Teen / Friendship / Family – 2010)

A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newberry Honor winning author

Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She’s always been different–set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents…

Sandra Cisneros (A)

List Price: $13.00 (Paperback – Young Latina Girl – 1991)

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero.…

Angie Thomas (A)

List Price: $21.99 (Hardcover – Fiction / Prep School / Teen Murder / Violence – 2017) 

A National Book Award Long list title with eight starred reviews!

#1 New York Times Bestseller!

“Absolutely riveting!” —Jason Reynolds

“Stunning.”—John Green

“This story is necessary. This story is important.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Heartbreakingly…

Angela Johnson (A)

List Price: $10.99 (Paperback – Teen Pregnancy – 2010)

Description:This little thing with the perfect face and hands doing nothing but counting on me. And me wanting nothing else but to run crying into my own mom’s room and have her do the whole thing. It’s not going to happen….

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Sister Souljah (A)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Street Smart Girl / Challenges and Survival – 2006)

Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.

I came busting into the world during one of New…

Four 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 foresees his younger brother’s imminent death, from the acclaimed author of SLAY.

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Kwame Alexander (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Breaking Rules and Consequences -2014)

2015 Newbery Medal Winner
2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller 

“With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering,“…

Kevin Powell (A) Hill Harper (Foreward)

List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – Self Help / Mentoring / Man to Man Conversations – 2008)

The Black Male Handbook is a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community,…

S. E. Anderson (A) and Vanessa Holley (ILT)

List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – The Black Holocaust – 2007)

Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust – from the start of the European…

Jason Reynolds (A)

List Price: $12.99 (Paperback – Fiction / Coming of Age / Finding Strength – 2016)

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book.

Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can’t handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who’s dealt with a lot more—and who just might…

David F. Walker (A) and Marcus Kwame Anderson

List Price: $19.99  (Paperback – Graphic Novel – History of Black Panther Party – 2021)

A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.

Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political…

Meg Blackburn Losey, PHD (A)

A philosophy teacher who experienced devastating situations and lost everything

List Price: $16.95 (Paperback – Self-help Book For Teens – 2012)

In The Art of Living Out Loud, Losey describes how she learned to live an authentic life, from this traumatic experience. She…

Ilyasah Shabazz (A) and Tiffany Jackson (A)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover –  The Life of A Great African American Leader – 2021)

The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist’s adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning…

Walter Dean Myers (A)

List Price: $16.95  (Hardcover – Fiction / Racial and Social Divides / Relationships / Drug Addiction – 2003)

Anthony Spoon Witherspoon, 17, leaves Harlem, and his girl, Gabi, to spend his senior year at Wallingford Academy in Connecticut, with the hope that he will get into an Ivy League…

Dashka Slater (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover  – Hate Crime / Gender Issues / Teen Trajedy / Healing – 2018) 

One teenager in a skirt.
One teenager with a lighter.
One moment that changes both of their lives forever.

If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have…

Sean Covey (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Success Strategies for Teens- 2017)

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives—now updated for today’s social media age.

In this newly revised edition, Sean…

Frances Temple (A) 

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Social Political / Haitian Revolt – 2004)

Seventeen year old Do has a story: Once he was one of Titid’s boys, a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive,…

“Combines wonderful characters and history to create a story that will make you want to dive right in!” JERRY CRAFT, author of the Newbery Medal–winning New Kid

A splashy, contemporary middle grade graphic novel from bestselling comics creator Johnnie Christmas!

Bree can’t wait for her first day…

Angela Johnson (A)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Teen / Loss / Coming Of Age – 2011)

After Heaven and The First Part Last, three-time Correta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson concludes her acclaimed trilogy with a poignant tale of finding where you belong and who you belong with.

Shoogy left…

Joel Christian (A and ILT) Henry Louis Gates (FRWD)

List Price: $23.95 (Paperback – Graphic Novel –  True Stories – 2014)

Strange 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 chronicles…

Traci L. Jones (A)

List Price: $11.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Friendship / High School / Challenges and Hope – 2010)

Patrice Williams was happy living in Georgia with her grandmother, then her mother lured her to Chicago and ended up in jail. Living in the projects, Patrice is an easy target…

Jason Alexander (A) and Ibrahm X. Kendi (A) 

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism–and antiracism–in America

This is NOT a history book.
This…

Ijeoma Oluo (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Paperback – Race Relations / Social Justice – 2019)

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America

Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy — from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans…

Brittney Morris (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover –  Teen Black Gamer / Racism/ Identity/ Drama -2019)

A 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 kind of knowledge that’ll keep you down for…

Samhita Arni (A) and Mona Chirakar (ILT) 

List Price: $24.95  (Hardcover –  India / Graphic Novel / War /  A  Woman’s Opinion -2011)

The Ramayana is an epic poem by the Hindu sage Valmiki, written in ancient Sanskrit sometime after 300 BC. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it…

Gregory Walker (A)

List Price $19.99 (Paperback – Ancient Egyptian History – 2015) 

Series: Shades of Memnon (Book 2)

The adventure continues in the second installment of the Shades of Memnon series, where it is 1200 B.C. and a young Kushite must fight for his family’s survival. (212 pgs) 

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5…

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, Liam, and all the characters that fans first met in New Kid, winner of the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Award!

In this…

Zetta Elliott (A) and. Love is Wise (ILT) 

Robert T. Kiyosaki (A) 

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Strategies for Personal Finance – 2017

April 2017 marks 20 years since Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad first made waves in the Personal Finance arena.
It has since become the #1 Personal Finance book of all time… translated into dozens of languages and sold around the world.

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Farrah Gray with Fran Harris

List Price:$14.99 (Paperback / Self Help and Improvement / Teen Success Story – 2005)

A remarkable teenager who went from public assistance to a million dollar net worth shares his story and offers 9 key principles to success.

Farrah Gray is no ordinary teenager. He wears a suit…

Ibi Zoboi (A) and Yusef Salaam (A)

List Price:  $15.99 (Paperback – Overcoming Racism Through Art – 2021) 

New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers…

Gregory Walker (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Ancient Egyptian History / Queen Mother Nefertari –  2014)

In world history there has never been a national hero celebrated for as long nor revered as much as Ancient Egypt’s Queen Mother Ahmesh Nefertari. She was a real African heroine who changed the course of…

Positive Affirmations Journal for Black Teen Boys: 3 Simple Steps to Effectively Use Affirmations

Are you looking for a book that engages pre-teen/teen boys and provides positive words that can motivate you and build your confidence? This journal is the perfect gift for you or any young man in your life.

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Renee Watson (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Teen/Choices / Opportunities – 2017)

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner New York Times bestseller”Timely and timeless.” –Jacqueline Woodson”Important and deeply moving.” –John Green Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in a world that too often…

Akwaeke Emezi (A)

List Price $12.99 (Paperback – Teen Novel Explores Themes on Identity and Justice – 2020) 

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times • Time…

Ermila Moodley (A)

List Price: $10.95 (Paperback – Young Adult Fiction / Relocation / Culture Confusion – 2007)

When her father is transferred from his position as a professor at a Capetown, South Africa university to Buena Vista, California, Thandie Sobukwe says goodbye to her friends, family and favorites places and hello…

Paul Von Blum (A) and Elizabeth Von Notias & Ramsess (ILT)

List Price:$16.99 (Paperback – Biography / Activist / Singer/ Actor / Athlete – 2013)

Paul Robeson, despite being one of the greatest Renaissance figures in American history, still remains in relative anonymity. An exceptional scholar, lawyer, athlete, stage and screen actor, linguist,…

Lamar Giles (A)

List Price $10.99 (Paperback – High School Crush – 2021)

“Hysterical. I couldn’t put it down.” (Nic Stone) “I laughed, I gasped, I church grunted through every chapter.” (Tiffany D. Jackson) “Heartfelt and hilarious on every page!” (Justin A. Reynolds) 4 starred reviews! * An Indie Next List Pick! * Named one of…

This book isn’t just for one kind of entrepreneur—it’s for every kind. Whether you’re thriving with purpose or struggling to grow your business and battle self-doubt, No One is Self-Made offers solutions and encouragement you need to push forward with the right community.

From the visionary behind the groundbreaking Village Market,…

Na’im Akbar (A)

List Price: $14.00 (Paperback – Black Manhood – 1991)

Visions For BlackMen raises issues which are not only important to black men but to all of us. How do we restore African manhood to those whom the society has not viewed as the chosen people? Discover the startling prediction of…