
My Daddy and I
Illustrator:
Jan Spivey Gilchrest Age Level:
0-3 Genre:
Fiction 
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Illustrator:
James Ransome Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Historical Fiction, Fiction 
The Gold Cadillac
Illustrator:
Michael Hays Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales
Illustrator:
Jerry Pinkney Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Fiction, Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Tall Tales 
Something Beautiful
Illustrator:
Chris K. Soentpiet Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction 
I Am Rosa Parks
Illustrator:
Wil Clay Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin Cowboy
Illustrator:
Brian Pinkney Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Myths and Legends 
Through My Eyes
Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
Drylongso
Illustrator:
Jerry Pinkney Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction 
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Illustrator:
Brian Pinkney Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin
Illustrator:
George Cephas Ford Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry 
Amazing Grace
Illustrator:
Caroline Binch Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Fiction 
A Chair for My Mother
Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Fiction 
Freedom Summer
Illustrator:
Jerome Lagarrigue Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction 
Bigmama’s
Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Illustrator:
Bryan Collier Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Fiction, Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Tall Tales, Myths and Legends 
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman
Illustrator:
Teresa Flavin Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
Illustrator:
Jerry Pinkney Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
Show Way
Illustrator:
Hudson Talbott Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Historical Fiction 
Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Poetry 
Wind Flyers
Illustrator:
Loren Long Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction 
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Historical Fiction, Fiction 
We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball
Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Illustrator:
George Ford Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
Illustrator:
Jan Spivey Gilchrest Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
We March
Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Nonfiction 
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
Illustrator:
James Ransome Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride
Illustrator:
Brian Pinkney Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
Harlem Renaissance Party
Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction 
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World
Illustrator:
Shane Evans Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Nonfiction 
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
Illustrator:
Keith Mallett Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Illustrator:
Shane Evans Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Biography, Historical Fiction, Fiction 
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
Illustrator:
Ekua Holmes Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction 
How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Nonfiction 
Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
March: Book One
Illustrator:
Nate Powell Age Level:
Teen Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
Illustrator:
James Ransome Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction 
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Illustrator:
Laura Freeman Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
Preaching to the Chickens: the Story of Young John Lewis
Illustrator:
E.B. Lewis Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Nonfiction, Biography 
The Undefeated
Illustrator:
Kadir Nelson Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Nonfiction, Poetry 
Ways to Build Dreams
Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Fiction Published:
2023

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round
Illustrator:
Steffi Walthall Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction 
An American Story
Illustrator:
Dare Coulter Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Nonfiction 
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
Illustrator:
E.B. Lewis Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Historical Fiction, Poetry 
A Child’s Introduction to African American History
Illustrator:
Lynn Gaines Age Level:
9-12 Genre:
Nonfiction