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Sheila Hamanaka (Author, Illustrator)(A and ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Friendship / Ethnic Diversity / Self-Esteem – 1999)

Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love—not…

Ruby Bridges (A) and John Jay Cabuay (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Ruby Bridges Pioneer / Activist – 2024)

National civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges responds to letters from thoughtful and concerned young students from across America.

“I’ve heard their hearts and now share those hearts…

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…

Isabel Wilkerson (A)

List Price: $20.00 (Paperback – African American History / The Migration South from 1915-1970 – 2010).

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel…

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu (A), Douglas Carlton Abrams and LeUyen Pham (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Board Book – Teaches Universal Love – 2010)

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Trish Cooke (A) Helen Oxenbury (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Toddler / Family / Afection and Adoration – 2008)

Mom and baby are home alone when-DING DONG!-Auntie and then Uncle and Nannie and Gran-Gran and the cousins come to visit. And they all want to hug and kiss and squeeze and eat…

Not sure what to buy for that special person.

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Select a special message or theme for any of the Following Occasions: Anniversary, Back to School, Birthday, Christmas, Congratulations, Juneteenth,…

This joyful, intergenerational love story celebrates Black hair, self-care, and cultural pride. Perfect for fans of Hair Love and Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut.

It’s wash day―Tasha’s least favorite day of the week!

Wash day means stinging eyes, aching back, and water everywhere, even in Tasha’s ears!  But with…

Bursting with inspiration and affirmation, Kheris Rogers’ debut picture book encourages children everywhere to love the skin they are in.

When her confidence is shaken by peers who say they are scared of her because she’s “too dark,” Imani turns to her sister for a loving reminder that she’s <span class="a-text-italic"…

Kwame Mbalia (A) 

List Price:$17.99 (Hardcover – Fantasy, Action and Mythology – 2019) 

Coretta Scott Award Winner – Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading.

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…

Jeannette Caines (A) and Pat Cummings (ILT)

List Price: $7.99  (Paperback – Travel Story with Auntie  – 1984) 

“No boys and no men-just us women,” Aunt Martha tells her niece. And together they plan their trip to North Carolina in Aunt Martha’s brand-new car. This is to be a very special outing-with no…

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…

What happens when a community discovers that vegetables have more to teach than just how to fill a plate?

Farmer B has spent a lifetime feeding his town, but when age and loneliness creep in, he wonders: who will carry the harvest forward? Then, a chorus of children, neighbors, and even the veggies themselves step…

Deloris Jordan (A) and Shadra Strickland (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Prayers / From Around The World)

From the coauthor of Salt in His Shoes Deloris Jordan comes a comforting book of prayers collected from faiths and cultures all over the world.

From cultures and countries near and far, this collection of more than…

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…

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…

The saga of the Logan family–made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry–concludes in a long-awaited and deeply fulfilling story.

In her tenth book, Mildred Taylor completes her sweeping saga about the Logan family of Mississippi, which is also the story…

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…

Lisa Cline Ransom (A) and James Ransome (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – African American History / Slaves Forbidden to Read – 2013)

Rosa and her mama go to school together-in the dark of night, silently, afraid that…

Louisa Jagger (A) and Shari Becker (A) and  Floyd Cooper (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – First Black Pilot to Fly Across the USA – 2021)

The inspirational and true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the country, comes to life in this picture book biography…

Follow a day in the life of a young Black child and learn the different ways we experience love every day with this striking illustrated children’s book.

Created in 1993, Black Love Day is celebrated annually on February 13. This holiday was created to demonstrate love, forgiveness, and acceptance among Black people. Throughout the…

Empathy-building tools for kids ages 6 to 9

Help young kids discover how to be kind as they develop their empathy skills and learn to handle difficult social situations. Created by a school psychologist, this top choice in empathy books for kids is full of fun exercises that teach kids how to understand and…

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…

Sharon Dennis Wyeth (A), Sharon Dennis Wyeth (ILT) , Chris K. Soentpiet (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Finding Beauty Everywhere – 2002)

Everyday a young girl is disheartened by the things in her neighborhood: the trash on the streets, the graffiti on the walls, and the homeless woman that sleeps in a…

Angela Johnson (A) and David Soman (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Grandfather and Grandson / Generations / Love – 2007)

A small child imagines a future when he will be old with his Grandaddy. . . . The African-American child and grandfather are distinct individuals, yet also universal figures, recognizable to anyone who…

Cynthia Levinson (A) and Vanessa Brantley-Newton (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Civil Rights / Protest – 2017)

Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you’re never too little to make a difference.

Nine-year-old Audrey Faye…

Deloris Jordan (A) and James Ransome (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – A Baby Celebration Book – 2010)

A Prayer for the Day Your Were Born.  This touching story from bestselling author Doloris Jordan celebrates the blessings new parents wish for their babies all through their lives. With a strong emphasis on the…

Doreen Rappaport (A) and Charles Lilly (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Slavery / Escape / Underground Railroad – 1998)

Eliza and her baby, running across the ice. Selena and Cornelia Jackson, masquerading as boys. Henry Box Brown, shipping himself north in a wooden crate. Jane Johnson, risking everything to testify against…

Let your little ones know how truly beautiful…

Marlon McKinney (A and ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Comic Book/ Graphic Novel  A Fantasy Story – Queen of Sheba – 2021)

A beautiful Ethiopian princess must use courage, strength, and leadership to conquer a dangerous enemy set on destroying the wealthy Kingdom of Sheba.

Princess Makeda was born into a loving royal family…

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…

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (A)

List Price: $19.95 (Paperback – 25 Essays on White Supremacy – 2004)

During the course of the struggle of African people against European racism, brutality and domination, many innovative thinkers have risen from our ranks. The greatest and most courageous scholars have devoted their lives to the pursuit…

Nikki Grimes (A)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Poetry / Students – 2001)

When Wesley writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon their having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are…

A friendship hypothesis—and one failed experiment—leads one girl to investigate the science of middle school friendship makeups and breakups in this hopeful and heartwarming story from Tanita S. Davis, author of Partly Cloudy and Serena Says.

Rylee Swanson is beginning eighth grade with zero friends.

A humiliating moment at the end-of-seventh-grade pool party involving a…

Lat Ashia M. Perry (A) & Bea kjackson (ILT)

List Price: $10.95 (Paperback – Children Self Esteem – 2015)

Hair Like Mine is the first book in the Kids Like Mine Series. It is a fun and easy read following a little girl who doesn’t like that her naturally curly hair looks…

Rekhit Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet (A)

List Price: $18.95 (Paperback – Kemetic Reiki -2014)

Kemetic Reiki is an ancient science of spiritual healing that was practiced by the Egyptian priests, physicians and layman. This book is the Level 1 manual for learning the craft of Kemetic Reiki for personal spiritual development. It includes…

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…

Bellerophon Books

List Price: $4.95 (Paperback – Coloring Book – 1988)

Art from the earliest king through 3,000 years to Cleopatra. There are animals at play, gods and goddesses, ships, dancers, and scenes of Egyptians at work and sport. (20 pgs) All Ages

• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2…

Naomi O’Brien (A) and LaNesha Tabb (A)

List Price:$26.95 (Paperback – Teaching Reference / Curriculum – 2020)

Reimagine social studies through culture, diversity, and inclusivity for all primary students

Primary educators know that little kids can do big things. So why teach the same old lessons when we can expose…

Sam Chege (A) 

List Price: $22.99 (Hardcover – African Proverbs / Offering Knowledge and Wisdom  – 2019)

Following the success of the mega bestselling Black Pearls, a collection of 365 African proverbs that illuminate the secret to peace and joy; and inspire the words of Cudjo Lewis in Zora Neale Hurston’s<span…

Allison Lassieur (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Science – Astronaut – 2016 )

While watching Star Trek on television as a child, Mae Jemison was certain she would one day visit space.  Then she became the first black female NASA astronaut. Find out how Jemison’s passion for science…

Herb Boyd (A) and Lance Tooks (ILT)

List Price: $15.95 (Paperback – African American History / Black Panthers / Civil Rights Era 2015)

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with…

Tiffany The Budgetnista Aliche (A)

List Price $26.00  (Hardcover – Financial Advice – 2021)

NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A ten-step plan for finding peace, safety, and harmony with your money—no matter how big or small your goals and no matter how rocky the market might be—by the inspiring and savvy…

Spanish Version

Discover the incredible true story of Harlem Grown, a lush garden in New York City that grew out of an abandoned lot and now feeds a neighborhood.

Once
In a big city called New York
In a bustling neighborhood
There was an empty lot.
Nevaeh called it the…