Atheneum Books for Young Readers

An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

77 Publications Found

Nani and the Lion
Nani and the Lion
Alicia D. Williams
Feb 2026
King of the Neuro Verse
King of the Neuro Verse
Idris Goodwin
Oct 2025
Black History Is Your History
Black History Is Your History
Taylor Cassidy
Oct 2025
We Go Slow
We Go Slow
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Aug 2025
All the Noise at Once
All the Noise at Once
DeAndra Davis
Apr 2025
Mid-Air (Reprint)
Mid-Air (Reprint)
Alicia D. Williams
Apr 2025
Children of Useyi
Children of Useyi
Moses Ose Utomi
Mar 2025
Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade
Let Us March On!
Yohuru Williams
May 2024
The Heart Never Forgets
The Heart Never Forgets
Ana Ot
Apr 2024
Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin
Carole Boston Weatherford
Sep 2023
Plátanos Are Love
Plátanos Are Love
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris
Apr 2023
The Loud Librarian
The Loud Librarian
Jenna Beatrice
Apr 2023
Daughters of Oduma
Daughters of Oduma
Moses Ose Utomi
Feb 2023
Dreams for a Daughter
Dreams for a Daughter
Carole Boston Weatherford
Mar 2021
Together We March: 25 Protest Movements That Marched Into History
Together We March
Leah Henderson
Jan 2021
Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
Respect
Carole Boston Weatherford
Aug 2020
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice
Kamala Harris
Nikki Grimes
Aug 2020
A Thousand Glass Flowers: Marietta Barovier and the Invention of the Rosetta Bead
A Thousand Glass Flowers
Evan Turk
Aug 2020
Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon
Katherine Johnson
May 2020
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
By and By
Carole Boston Weatherford
Jan 2020
Jason Reynolds’s Track Series Paperback Collection (Boxed Set): Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu
Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Reaching for the Moon
Katherine Johnson
Jul 2019
Puppy Truck
Puppy Truck
Brian Pinkney
Jun 2019
You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks
You Are Home
Evan Turk
Jun 2019
For Every One
For Every One
Jason Reynolds
Apr 2019
Another
Another
Christian Robinson
Mar 2019
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
Evan Turk
Jun 2018
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace
How Sweet the Sound
Carole Boston Weatherford
May 2018
In Your Hands
In Your Hands
Carole Boston Weatherford
Sep 2017
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
Muddy
Evan Turk
Sep 2017
One Shadow on the Wall
One Shadow on the Wall
Leah Henderson
Jun 2017
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
Carole Boston Weatherford
Jan 2017
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
The Youngest Marcher
Cynthia Levinson
Jan 2017
Martin’s Dream Day
Martin’s Dream Day
Kitty Kelley
Jan 2017
The Storyteller
The Storyteller
Evan Turk
Jun 2016
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
You Can Fly
Carole Boston Weatherford
May 2016
As Brave As You
As Brave As You
Jason Reynolds
May 2016
Sail Away
Sail Away
Langston Hughes
Sep 2015
When I Was the Greatest (paperback)
When I Was the Greatest (paperback)
Jason Reynolds
Aug 2015
One Word from Sophia
One Word from Sophia
Jim Averbeck
Jun 2015
The Boy in the Black Suit
The Boy in the Black Suit
Jason Reynolds
Jan 2015
Stella by Starlight
Stella by Starlight
Sharon M. Draper
Jan 2015
Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer
Maya Angelou
Jun 2014
Panic
Panic
Sharon M. Draper
Apr 2014
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X
Malcolm Little
Ilyasah Shabazz
Jan 2014
When I Was The Greatest
When I Was The Greatest
Jason Reynolds
Jan 2014
Tears Of A Tiger (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
Tears Of A Tiger (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
Sharon M. Draper
Jul 2013
Forged By Fire (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
Forged By Fire (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
Sharon M. Draper
Jul 2013
Darkness Before Dawn (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
I Am the World
I Am the World
Charles R. Smith Jr.
Jul 2013
Out Of My Mind
Out Of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper
Mar 2010
Stars in the Shadows: The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934
Stars in the Shadows
Charles R. Smith Jr.
Jan 2012
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer—who’s that, who? Why, that’s MISS Josephine Baker, to you!
Jazz Age Josephine
Jonah Winter
Jan 2012
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
Black Indians
William L. Katz
Jan 2012
Touching Snow
Touching Snow
M. Sindy Felin
Mar 2011
Chains
Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Jan 2010
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition)
Sonia Sotomayor
Jonah Winter
Nov 2009
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song
Ashley Bryan
Ashley Bryan
Jan 2009
My People
My People
Langston Hughes
Jan 2009
Copper Sun
Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper
Jan 2008
If: A Father’s Advice to His Son
If
Charles R. Smith Jr.
Mar 2007
Let it Shine
Let it Shine
Ashley Bryan
Jan 2007
For You Are a Kenyan Child
For You Are a Kenyan Child
Kelly Cunnane
Jan 2006
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Roberto Clemente
Jonah Winter
Mar 2005
Precious and the Boo Hag
Precious and the Boo Hag
Patricia C. Mckissack
Jan 2005
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals
All Night, All Day
Ashley Bryan
Jan 2004
Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist
Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Jan 2004
Beautiful Blackbird
Beautiful Blackbird
Ashley Bryan
Jan 2003
Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry
Carol Of The Brown King: Nativity Poems
Carol Of The Brown King
Langston Hughes
Oct 1998
Let My People Go : Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color
Let My People Go
Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Oct 1998
Ma Dear’s Aprons
Ma Dear’s Aprons
Patricia C. Mckissack
Apr 1997
The Battle Of Jericho
The Battle Of Jericho
Sharon M. Draper
Oct 1990
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks
Ashley Bryan
Oct 1986
Half a Moon and One Whole Star
Half a Moon and One Whole Star
Crescent Dragonwagon
Jan 1986
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum (Aladdin Books)
Mukasa
Mukasa
John Nagenda
Feb 1973

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