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Dear Star Baby by Malcolm NewsomeJust Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry PinkneyHow Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston WeatherfordI Want to Be Big! by Tiffany GoldenThe Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, the Big Ways We’re the Same by Linsey DavisBig Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince by Alliah L. AgostiniI Am Big by Itah SaduThe Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story by Glenda ArmandThe (Young) Antiracist’s Workbook: Questions for Changemakers by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic StoneForgive Me Not by Jennifer BakerThere Was a Party for Langston by Jason ReynoldsRepeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé HillCome Home Safe by Brian BuckmireHappy with My Nappy by Gina JarrellJuneteenth by Van G. GarrettFadya and the Song of the River by Laura NsafouLittle Daymond Learns to Earn by Daymond JohnBig by Vashti HarrisonThe Noisy Classroom Goes to the Museum by Angela ShantéGarvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel by Nikki GrimesWe Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBrideThe Rhythm of Time by Questlove and S. A. CosbyColin Kaepernick: Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. EwingBreaking to the Beat! by Linda J. AcevedoSun Keep Rising by Kristen R. LeeIce Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda ArmandEllie Engle Saves Herself by Leah JohnsonA Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinneyFresh Juice by Robert Liu-TrujilloThe Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. KendiNot an Easy Win by Chrystal D. GilesHonest June: Secrets and Spies by Tina WellsFlipflopi: How a Boat Made from Flip-Flops Is Helping to Save the Ocean by Linda Ravin Lodding and Dipesh PabariAll Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration by Glenda ArmandThe Artivist by Nikkolas SmithNic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie ThomasThe Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music by Roberta Flack and Tonya BoldenRock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya BoldenA Walk in the Woods by Nikki GrimesRooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector by Janice N. HarringtonWe Are Here by Tami CharlesOnce in a Blue Moon by Sharon G. FlakeJump In! by Shadra StricklandCoretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King by Alice Faye DuncanA Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music by Jabari AsimBreaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance by William Loren KatzThe Everlasting Rose (the Belles Series, Book 2) by Dhonielle ClaytonMary Can! by Mary J. BligeSandy Toes: A Summer Adventure by Shauntay GrantStacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena MontgomeryMy Baba’s Garden by Jordan ScottCan We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda PetrusA Boy and His Mirror by Marchánt DavisDreamer by Akim Aliu and Greg Anderson ElyseeThe Enchanted Bridge by Zetta ElliottTo Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela DaltonPromise Boys by Nick BrooksAn Earth Song (Petite Poems) by Langston HughesHistory Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes by Tracey BaptisteJustice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Katheryn Russell-BrownTrack Star #4 by Kelly Starling LyonsChaos Theory by Nic StoneLittle Troublemaker Makes a Mess by Luvvie Ajayi JonesA Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen ReidTy’s Travels: Camp-Out by Kelly Starling LyonsYoung, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia WilsonMy Red, White, and Blue by Alana TysonWash Day by Tiffany GoldenYou So Black by Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.Hey Otter! Hey Beaver! by Brian PinkneySee You on the Other Side by Rachel Montez MinorSalat in Secret by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowThe Bronx Is My Home by Alyssa Reynoso-MorrisCape by Kevin JohnsonLooking for Happy by Ty ChapmanSugar Plum Ballerinas Sugar Plums to the Rescue! #5 by Whoopi GoldbergMermaid and Pirate by Tracey BaptisteMatchmaker #3 by Kelly Starling LyonsFigure It Out, Henri Weldon by Tanita S. DavisJackie Ormes Draws the Future: The Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist by Liz MontagueCornrows (2023) by Camille YarbroughJelani’s Key by D. Amari JacksonSchool Trip by Jerry CraftInvisible Son by Kim JohnsonWhat Does Brown Mean To You? by Ron GradyHurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late! by Janice N. HarringtonAn American Story by Kwame AlexanderPlátanos Are Love by Alyssa Reynoso-MorrisGordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston WeatherfordHow to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic StoneThe Belles by Dhonielle ClaytonYou Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland by Carole Boston WeatherfordA Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinneyBirmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston WeatherfordMadam C. J. Walker Builds a Business by Denene MillnerHarlem at Four by Michael DatcherThe Mermaid Princesses: A Sister Tale by Maya Cameron-GordonThe Courage of the Little Hummingbird: A Tale Told Around the World by Leah HendersonKetanji: Justice Jackson’s Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court by Kekla MagoonCurlfriends: New in Town (a Graphic Novel) by Sharee MillerHow to Write a Poem by Kwame AlexanderNigeria Jones by Ibi ZoboiBaby, Sleepy Baby by AtinukePut Your Shoes On & Get Ready! by Raphael G. WarnockLittle Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney BarlowYou Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce by Carmella Van Vleet and Chiquita Mullins LeeSimon B. Rhymin’ Gets in the Game by Dwayne ReedRemember Us by Jacqueline WoodsonNow Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Brahm RevelI’m Going to Have a Good Day!: Daily Affirmations with Scarlett by Tiania Haneline and Scarlett Gray SmithA Family Prayer by Shay YoungbloodA Flag for Juneteenth by Kim TaylorThe Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj MuhammadShe Persisted: Dorothy Height by Kelly Starling LyonsThe Playbook by Kwame AlexanderInvincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America by Wade Hudson