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Rita Williams Garcia (A)

List Price: $9.99 ( Paperback – Series Book 1 / Fiction / Missing Parent / Summer Camp / Self Discovery – 2011)

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and…

Ibram X. Kendi (A) 

List Price: $27.00  (Hardcover –  Self Help / How To Be An Antiracist – 2019) 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.

“The most courageous book to date on…

Rachelle Burke (A) 

List Price $6.99 (Paperback – Biography / Gymnastics Star -2021)

Simone Biles has been called the greatest gymnast of all time, winning five Olympic and 25 World Champion medals by age 22. Before she wowed the world with her incredible gymnastics skills, Simone was an energetic young girl who dreamed of becoming…

Jabari Asim (A) and LeUyen Pham (ILT)

Ilyasha Shabazz (A) and AG Ford (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – African American Leader / Civil Rights Era – 2014)

Malcolm X grew to be one of America’s most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by his daughter, this inspiring picture book biography celebrates a vision…

Public Domain, E.B.. Lewis (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Song / African American Spiritual – 2005)

A great visual interpretation of a a popular African-American spiritual. It is morning when the book opens, and readers are greeted by a smiling boy. Throughout the day, he spreads his own special…

Sonia Nazario (A)

List Price: $11.99 (Paperback – Multicultural Bilingual – 2014)

Adapted for young people, this edition of Enrique’s Journey is written by Sonia Nazario and based on the adult book of the same name. It is the true story of Enrique, a teenager from Honduras, who sets out…

When Sadiq’s father leaves on a business trip, he worries he’ll miss his baba too much.

But Baba has a story for Sadiq: the story of the Desert Star. Learning about Baba’s passion for the stars sparks Sadiq’s interest in outer space. But can Sadiq find others who are willing to help him start…

Ibi Zoboi (A)

List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover – Coming of Age Strory – Loves Science – 2019)

National Book Award-finalist Ibi Zoboi makes her middle-grade debut with a moving story of a girl finding her place in a world that’s changing at warp speed.

Twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet has lived with her beloved…

Mechel Renee Roe (A and ILT) 

List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover – Hairstyles and Personalities – 2014)

Happy Hair is a call and response picture book that promotes positive self-esteem and hair love to girls of all ages! Happy Hair covers different shades and hair types all while being fun and fashionable! This book…

Ibi Zoboi (A) 

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Coming Of Age / Haitian Teen – 2017)

American Street is an evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Everything, Everything; Bone Gap; and All American Boys.

In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing…

A gorgeous full-color graphic historical novel, sure to become an instant classic, that explores the friendship and feud between Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass, offering new insights into slavery and incarceration in the United States.

Told from the perspectives of statesman and orator Frederick Douglass, and journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, Before…

belle Hooks (A) and Chris Raschka (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Board Book – Celebrating Black Hair – 2017)

Happy to be nappy!
Happy with hair all short and strong.
Happy with locks that twist and curl.
Just all girl happy!
Happy to be nappy hair!

Celebrate the joy and beauty of nappy…

From the New York Times bestselling creator of the Questioneers, Andrea Beaty, and author Theanne Griffith comes The Science of Baking (Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files), a nonfiction early-reader book based on the Netflix series!

How does a cake bake? What’s the difference between baking soda and baking powder? And why is it so…

Muriel Feelings (A) and Tom Feelings (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Alphabet / In Swahili – 1992)

Great Swahili Beginner Book 

Here is an introduction not only to the letters of the alphabet, but also to another language and culture. Each of the twenty-four letters (there are no q or x sounds…

Kim Johnson (A)

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…

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Member of the 2023 Notable Books for a Global Society (NGBS) List

From the beloved author of President of the Whole Fifth Grade, a story about a young Black girl who summons the courage to fight against a discriminatory dress…

Carole Boston Weatherford (A) and (ILT) James E. Ransome

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Kids Bio of Dr. King – 2018)

You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall.

You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience.

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Sarvinder Naberhaus (A) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)

List Price: $19.99  (Hardcover -A Tribute to America – 2017)

Descripiion:  An inspiring and patriotic tribute to the beauty of the American flag, a symbol of America’s history, landscape, and people, illustrated by New York Times bestselling and Caldecott-honor winning artist Kadir Nelson

Wonderfully spare, deceptively simple verses…

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…

Jason Reynolds (A) and Brendan Kiely (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Violence / Mistaken Identity – 2015)

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature.

In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award–winning novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with…

A perfect picture book about perseverance, overcoming challenges, and working hard to achieve your goals!

Sydney learns to conquer her fear of public speaking at school, in this affectionate father-daughter story referencing inspiring role models who dealt with similar issues.

Sydney wants to be a great leader when she grows up. There’s just one…

Jerdine Nolen (A) and Colin Bootman (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Family and Relationships / Tradition 2001)

Seems like everything good that happens in the home happens in the kitchen. A place where abundant love and sweet memories and wonderful stories are staples of…

Walter Dean Myers (A), Leonard Jenkins (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Leader / Revolutionary – 2003)

“I believe in recognizing every human being
as a human being, neither white, black, brown, nor red.”

This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X brought to people of…

Beverly Bond (A and E)

List Price: $30.00 (Hardcover – Celebrates Black Women’s Achievements and Success – 2018)

From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.

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Parents’ Favorite Product Award Winner, Tillywig Toy & Media Award, 2022

“This beautifully-executed set and all its contents are wonderfully accessible, impactful, and much needed.

We can’t praise Kind Kids highly enough!” – Tillywig Toy & Media Awards

Explore Kind Kids, the unique, hands-on activity deck with fifty games, crafts and mindfulness activities…

Ilima Loomis (A) and Kenard Pak (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Hawaiian Heritage – 2022)

Join the family, or ohana, as they farm taro for poi to prepare for a traditional luau celebration with a poetic text in the style of The House That Jack Built. Now…

Tim Crothers (A) 

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Uganda / Chess Champion – 2016)

Now a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo, directed by Mira Nair.

The “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) and “inspirational” (Shelf Awareness) true story of Phiona Mutesi—a teenage chess prodigy…

Glory Edim (A)

List Price: $20.00 (Hardcover – Anthology / Literary Essays – 2018)

NOMINATED FOR AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD • An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

“Yes, Well-Read Black Girl is as good…

Isabel Wilkerson ( A)

List Price: $32.00 (Hardcover –  America’s Hidden Caste System – 2020)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York…

Carole Boston Weatherford (A) and R. Gregory Christie (ILT)  

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – African American History / New Orleans / Congo Square – 2016)

This poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human’s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how…

Activists Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab present a poetic anthem to your brilliance, your beauty, your very existence.

Every child has the right to be free. … the right to reach … the right to dream!

This lyrical affirmation of what freedom truly means celebrates the principles of Colin and Nessa’s Know Your Rights…

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…

Herb Boyd (A) and Shey Wolvek Pfister (ILT)

List Price: $14.95. (Paperback – Graphic Novel / African History – 2007)

African History For Beginners explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory of the Pharaohs and Towers of Zimbabwe, the cosmology of the Yoruba, the courage of the Masai…

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…

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,…

James Buckley Jr. (A), Who HQ (A) and Andrew Thomson (ILT)

Price: $6.50 (Paperback – Biography / Champion Tennis Players / Sisters – 2018) 

The dynamic story of the Williams sisters, both top-ranked professional tennis players.

Venus and Serena Williams are two of the most successful professional American tennis players of all…

Jason Reynold (A)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Track and Field / Competition – 2019)

Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds. 

Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that…

Carole Boston Weatherford (A) and Eric Velasquez (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Explorer / North Pole – 2007)

Matthew Henson was not meant to lead an ordinary life. His dreams had sails. They took him from the port of Baltimore, around the world, and north to the pole. No amount of fear,…

George Gershwin (A) and Mike Wimmer (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback / Plantation Life – 2002)

This lavish picture book is based on the beloved folk opera Porgy and Bess features Wimmer lush, epic oil paintings which reveal a vision of plantation life that extends the lyrics of this enormously popular…

Janice N. Harrington (A) and Theodore Taylor lll

List Price: $18.50 (Hardcover – First Black Entomologist – 2019)

Can spiders learn? How do ants find their way home? Can bugs see color? All of these questions buzzed endlessly in Charles Henry Turner’s mind. As the first Black entomologist, he was fascinated by plants and…

Laura Hamilton Waxman (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Science – Aerospace Engineer – 2015) 

Have you ever built a cool science project? In middle school, Aprille Ericsson won second place in a science fair. She knew she wanted to keep creating amazing science projects. As an adult, she became an…

Is what I’m feeling normal? Is what my body is doing normal? Am I normal? How do I know what are the right choices to make? How do I know how to behave? How do I fix it when I make a mistake?

Let’s talk about it.

Growing up is complicated.

How do you find…