Pre-K through 2nd Grade
Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend by Calvin A. Ramsey
E Ramsey
Chocolate Me by Taye Diggs
E Diggs
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill
J AH Bio Dave
I See the Rhythm of Gospel by Toyomi Igus
782.25 Ig
My Uncle Martin’s Words of Love for America by Angela Farris Watkins
J AH 323.092 Wa
Play Ball, Jackie! by Stephen Krensky
E Krensky
One Love by Cedella Marley
E Marley
Rosa’s Bus by Jo S. Kittinger
323.1196 Ki
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick
J AH Bio Manley, E
A Song for Jamela by Niki Daly
E Daly
Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World’s Smartest Horse by Emily Arnold McCully
E McCully
3rd Grade and Up
Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J Pinkney
The Cruisers: Checkmate by Walter Dean Myers
J Myers
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
973.0496 Ne
How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy by Crystal Allen
J Fiction Allen
Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack
J McKissack
Odetta, the Queen of Folk by Stephen Alcorn
J AH Bio Odetta
Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes
J Grimes
Play, Louis, Play!: The True Story of a Boy & His Horn by Muriel Weinstein
J Bio Armstrong, L
Real Life is No Fairy Tale by Sujan Dass
J Dass
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Ramsey
E Ramsey
A Storm Called Katrina by Myron Uhlberg
J Uhlberg
These Hands by Margaret H. Mason
E Mason
