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I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany GoldenYou So Black by Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.I’m Going to Have a Good Day!: Daily Affirmations with Scarlett by Tiania Haneline and Scarlett Gray SmithRooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector by Janice N. HarringtonFresh Juice by Robert Liu-TrujilloPromise Boys by Nick BrooksGarvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel by Nikki GrimesAll Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration by Glenda ArmandJust Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry PinkneyDear Star Baby by Malcolm NewsomeJackie Ormes Draws the Future: The Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist by Liz MontagueFadya and the Song of the River by Laura NsafouJustice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Katheryn Russell-BrownNigeria Jones by Ibi ZoboiThe Everlasting Rose (the Belles Series, Book 2) by Dhonielle ClaytonAn Earth Song (Petite Poems) by Langston HughesInvisible Son by Kim JohnsonA Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinneyIce Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda ArmandHurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late! by Janice N. HarringtonA Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen ReidCan We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda PetrusThe (Young) Antiracist’s Workbook: Questions for Changemakers by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic StoneWe Are Here by Tami CharlesRemember Us by Jacqueline WoodsonHow to Write a Poem by Kwame AlexanderThe Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, the Big Ways We’re the Same by Linsey DavisThe Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. KendiThe Noisy Classroom Goes to the Museum by Angela ShantéThe Courage of the Little Hummingbird: A Tale Told Around the World by Leah HendersonLooking for Happy by Ty ChapmanA Boy and His Mirror by Marchánt DavisThe Playbook by Kwame AlexanderBirmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston WeatherfordTo Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela DaltonA Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music by Jabari AsimThe Mermaid Princesses: A Sister Tale by Maya Cameron-GordonRock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya BoldenSugar Plum Ballerinas Sugar Plums to the Rescue! #5 by Whoopi GoldbergJuneteenth by Van G. GarrettStacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena MontgomeryThe Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story by Glenda ArmandThe Enchanted Bridge by Zetta ElliottAn American Story by Kwame AlexanderHey Otter! Hey Beaver! by Brian PinkneyJelani’s Key by D. Amari JacksonSimon B. Rhymin’ Gets in the Game by Dwayne ReedCoretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King by Alice Faye DuncanLittle Daymond Learns to Earn by Daymond JohnThe Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj MuhammadHonest June: Secrets and Spies by Tina WellsThe Rhythm of Time by Questlove and S. A. CosbyThe Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music by Roberta Flack and Tonya BoldenGordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston WeatherfordWe Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBrideMadam C. J. Walker Builds a Business by Denene MillnerMy Baba’s Garden by Jordan ScottFlipflopi: How a Boat Made from Flip-Flops Is Helping to Save the Ocean by Linda Ravin Lodding and Dipesh PabariChaos Theory by Nic StoneThe Bronx Is My Home by Alyssa Reynoso-MorrisHow Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston WeatherfordKetanji: Justice Jackson’s Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court by Kekla MagoonLittle Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney BarlowYou Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland by Carole Boston WeatherfordMary Can! by Mary J. BligeWash Day by Tiffany GoldenHarlem at Four by Michael DatcherSee You on the Other Side by Rachel Montez MinorBig by Vashti HarrisonDreamer by Akim Aliu and Greg Anderson ElyseeThere Was a Party for Langston by Jason ReynoldsBreaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance by William Loren KatzBig Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince by Alliah L. AgostiniLittle Troublemaker Makes a Mess by Luvvie Ajayi JonesCape by Kevin JohnsonNow Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Brahm RevelThe Artivist by Nikkolas SmithCurlfriends New in Town (a Graphic Novel) by Sharee MillerInvincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America by Wade HudsonOnce in a Blue Moon by Sharon G. FlakeBaby, Sleepy Baby by AtinukeThe Belles by Dhonielle ClaytonRepeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé HillBreaking to the Beat! by Linda J. AcevedoNot an Easy Win by Chrystal D. GilesPut Your Shoes On & Get Ready! by Raphael G. WarnockCome Home Safe by Brian BuckmireSalat in Secret by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowHow to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic StoneSchool Trip by Jerry CraftCornrows (2023) by Camille YarbroughNic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie ThomasI Am Big by Itah SaduSandy Toes: A Summer Adventure by Shauntay GrantSun Keep Rising by Kristen R. LeeMermaid and Pirate by Tracey BaptisteWhat Does Brown Mean To You? by Ron GradyA Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinneyA Walk in the Woods by Nikki GrimesMatchmaker #3 by Kelly Starling LyonsFigure It Out, Henri Weldon by Tanita S. DavisMy Red, White, and Blue by Alana TysonTy’s Travels: Camp-Out by Kelly Starling LyonsYou Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce by Carmella Van Vleet and Chiquita Mullins LeeHappy with My Nappy by Gina JarrellEllie Engle Saves Herself by Leah JohnsonA Family Prayer by Shay YoungbloodShe Persisted: Dorothy Height by Kelly Starling LyonsColin Kaepernick: Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. EwingYoung, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia WilsonTrack Star #4 by Kelly Starling LyonsForgive Me Not by Jennifer BakerJump In! by Shadra StricklandPlátanos Are Love by Alyssa Reynoso-MorrisA Flag for Juneteenth by Kim TaylorHistory Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes by Tracey Baptiste