Hill Harper (A)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Mentoring / Boys / Guidance and Life Skills – 2007)

Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success.

Based on the author…

Christopher Paul Curtis (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Fiction / Depression Era / Family – 2013)

We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is the motto of Deza Malone’s family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a…

Audrey Vernick (A) and Don Tate (ILT) Harper Collins

List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover – Biography / Baseball – 2010)

Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see Babe Ruth’s mighty swing. But she never dreamed she…

From New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles and rising star illustrator Sharon Sordo comes the second book in a charming picture book series about a fun, spunky girl with strong opinions, big ideas, and a huge heart!

Zuri Ray is back! And this time, she’s got a party to plan.…

Nancy Redd (A) and Charnell Pinkney Barlow  (ILT) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Black Santa Story – 2021)

Join one Black family on their journey to discover what the real Santa looks like in this joyous tale celebrating identity, family and holiday cheer, from the New York Times bestselling author of Bedtime Bonnet.It’s not Christmas…

An inspiring and empowering collection of 75 mindful meditations curated for Black women everywhere to help prioritize self-love, find inner peace, and promote self-reflection.

Meditations for Black Women is a collection of 75 mindful reflections tailored uniquely to the experiences of Black women. These reflections are designed to inspire, support, and ground Black women, helping…

This joyous and loving celebration of family is…

Leslea Newman (A) and Carol Thompson (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Board Book – Families / Lesbian Couple and Child – 2010)

Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, theres no limit to…

Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore (A) and Kristi Valiant (ILT)

List Price: $11.95 (Paperback – Filipino / Cooking – 2011)

Cora loves being in the kitchen, but she always gets stuck doing the kid jobs like licking the…

Carole Boston Weatherford (A) and Floyd Cooper (ILT) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Massacre – 2021)

Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation’s history. The book traces the…

Marion Cocklito (ILT) 

List Price: $8.95 (Board Book – Preparation for Siblings – 2018) 

A powerful contemporary novel about an aspiring 12 year-old filmmaker whose world is turned upside down when his grandfather is slain in a senseless and racist act of violence. From the author of the award-winning memoir, Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South and co-editor of Recognize! An Anthology Honoring and…

Atlantis Tye Browder (A) and Anthony T Browder (A)

Liat Price: $11.99 (Paperback – Journal/ Travel To Africa – 1995)

Africa on My Mind is the second publication co-authored by 13 year old Atlantis Tye Browder and her father Anthony. It chronicles their experiences while participating in a 15 day study tour to…

Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu (A)

List Price: $9.95 (Paperback – History Lessons / Elementary Edition -1987)

A Black history textbook that goes beyond “Negro” to African history, this book shows the strengths, weaknesses, victories, and mistakes of African Americans. Beautifully illustrated, it includes test questions and vocabulary exercises. (108 pgs) Age: 5-12 

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3…

Margarita Engle (A) and Rafael Lopes (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Poetic  Biographies – 2017)

Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot―the Latinos featured in this collection, Bravo!, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to…

Yona Zeldis McDonough (A), Nancy Harrison (ILT) and Stephen Marchesi (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Biography – Activist /Civil Rights Leader – 2010)

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned…

Cheryl Willis Hudson (A) and Bernadette Ford (A) and George Ford (ILT)

List Price: $9.95 (Paperback – Discovery / Self Esteem – 1990)

A classic in early childhood education, Bright Eyes, Brown Skin features four adorable African-American youngsters as they go about their typical day at pre-school. More than 500,000 copies sold.…

Veronica Chambers (A) and Julie Maren (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback- Cuban Singer / Queen of Salsa – 2005)

Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted. indeed, there was a magical vibrancy to the Cuban salsa singer. to hear…

 Beverly Danielle Tatum (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Race Dynamics / Conversations – 2017) 

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism — now fully revised and updated

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is…

Loretta Setto (A) & Renne Benoit (ILT)

List Price: $14.95 (Paperback – Multicultural Bilingual – 2017)

Mooncakes is the lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. As they eat mooncakes, drink tea and watch the night sky together, Mama and Baba…

Sojourner Truth (A)

List Price: $3.00 (Paperback – Autobiography – 1997)

Unabridged reproduction of Narrative of Sojourner Truth. She was sold for $100 but grew beyond her place in society to demand rights for women as well as African Americans.  This is her story.  This is her voice.

She is the passionate woman…

…

Epic Athletes: Serena Williams is an inspiring middle-grade biography of the most celebrated women’s tennis player ever from acclaimed sports journalist Dan Wetzel!

Featuring comic-style illustrations by Sloane Leong!

Serena Williams is no stranger to overcoming obstacles. From growing up in a tough neighborhood to combatting racism to weathering severe health issues,…

Nikole Hannah-Jones (A and Creator), New York Times Magazine (Creator), Caitlin Roper  (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor) and Jake Silverstein (Editor)

List Price: $38.00 (Hardcover – Re-Envisioning Slavery in American History – 2021)

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision…

Prof. Manu Ampim (A) 

List Price: $29.95 (Paperback – African History – 2019) 

A HISTORY OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS is a book for both the general public and the classroom, based on the original primary research of Prof. Ampim, and it is complete with lesson plans and unit resources. This book follows the African…

 Peter Tosh (A) and Rachel Moss (ILT)

 List Price:  $17.95 (Hardcover – African / Song Lyric  –  2020)

A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.

So don’t care where you come from
As long as you’re a black man, you’re an African
No mind…

Explore the underwater world of creatures from sea turtles to clown fish in this touch and feel board book. Perfect for little hands to hold, this sensory board book features a variety of materials to touch and feel.

• Features a silicone touch and feel element on the cover and various touch and feel elements…

An intergenerational story about a nonbinary child who learns the tradition of well digging in this picture book about community, hope, and protecting the Earth’s water.

As soon as Kit’s old enough to ride in Grandpa’s truck, they begin joining him to dig wells for their community. Grandpa is magic. He can feel the weather…

Whoppi Goldberg (A), Deborah Underwood (A) and Marilyn Roos (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Dance – Ballet / Finding Support – 2009)

The third book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas series by Whoopi Goldberg—now featuring brand-new illustrations!

Perfectionist Jerzey Mae desperately wants to…

Kwame Alexander (A) and  Mr. Thai Neave (Photos)

List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover –  Self Help / 52 Rules to Live By -2017)

New York Times bestseller ∙ Indie Next Pick

You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if…

Malik, a Pakistani boy who uses a wheelchair, is excited to compete in the annual kite-flying festival of Basant. Can his kite defeat the bully’s and make him King of the festival?

Basant is here, with feasts and parties to celebrate the arrival of spring. But what Malik is looking forward to…

Mariama J.Lockington (A)

List Price: 17.99 (Hardcover – Teen Girls / Self Discovery – 2019)

In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family.

I am a girl but most days…

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…

David Wisniewski (A) and (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – African King / Mali – 1999)

In the thirteenth century, Sundiata overcame physical handicaps, social disgrace, and strong opposition to rule the West African Sudanese trading empire of Mali. During his reign he established the territorial base of the empire and laid the…

Cynthia Leitich Smith (EDIT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Anthology of Native American Stories – 2021)

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.

Native…

Dinah Brown (A) and Andrew Thomson (ILT)

List Price: $6.50 (Paperback – Biography / Middle East / Education Advocate – 2015)

Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what…

Patricia C. McKissack (A) and April Johnson (ILT) 

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Celebrates – 2019)

This final, magnificent picture book from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack is a poignant and uplifting celebration of the joy of giving. 

Description: “Misery loves company,” Mama says to James…

Yona Zeldis McDonough (A) and Jim Eldridge (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Biography / Evangelist / Feminist – 2015)

Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court–and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she…

Walter Dean Myers (A) and Christopher Myers (ILT) 

List Price:  $18.95 (Hardcover – Jazz Poetry – 2008)

There’s a crazy syncopation /and it’s tearing through the nation / and it’s bringing sweet elation / to every single tune./ It’s Jazz
 
Fifteen poems, infused with the rhythm and…

Whoppi Goldberg (A) and Deborah Underwood (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Dance / Ballet / Stage Fright)

The first book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas series by Whoopi Goldberg—now featuring brand-new illustrations!

Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson does not want to…

June Peters, is a vibrant ten year old girl who understands the importance of giving. She’s determined to make a difference in the world and will do whatever it takes to complete her mission.

However, she learns a valuable lesson about talking to strangers and giving away her lunch money. June is still eager…

Mary Burns Knight (A) and Margey Knight and Anne Sibley OBrien (ILT)

List Price: $10.95 (Paperback – Various African Children and Countries)

Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.

Tells the stories of the ordinary lives of children throughout a typical day in…

Mary Hoffman (A) ad Caroline Binch (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Center Stage / Circus – 2001)

School’s out, and that means it’s time for fun! Grace and her friends are always ready for a little adventure, and Grace’s backyard is the perfect place to set up headquarters. Suddenly the lawn is…

Praised as “a story of perserverance and love” in a starred review by Kirkus, here is a story about keeping dreams alive.

Onyx lives with his mother, who is showing signs of early-onset dementia. He doesn’t want to bring attention to his home — if Child Protective Services finds out, they’ll put him into foster…

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…

Ifeoma Onyefulu (A and Photos)

List Price $7.99 (Paperback – Alphabet Book / African Themes and Concepts – 1999)

This alphabet is based on my own favorite images of the Africa I know, writes Onyefulu, a member of the Igbo tribe who grew up in Nigeria and now lives in…

David Barclay Moore (A)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Community / Navigating Thru Challenges -2017)

“The right story at the right time. . . . It’s not just a narrative; it’s an experience. It’s the novel we’ve been waiting for.” —The New York Times

A boy tries to steer a safe path through the…