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Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda ArmandI Want to Be Big! by Tiffany GoldenWe Are Here by Tami CharlesThe Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj MuhammadThe Enchanted Bridge by Zetta ElliottThe Artivist by Nikkolas SmithDreamer by Akim Aliu and Greg Anderson ElyseeAn Earth Song (Petite Poems) by Langston HughesRooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector by Janice N. HarringtonChaos Theory by Nic StoneThe Playbook by Kwame AlexanderEllie Engle Saves Herself by Leah JohnsonMermaid and Pirate by Tracey BaptisteTy’s Travels: Camp-Out by Kelly Starling LyonsInvisible Son by Kim JohnsonA Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinneyCoretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King by Alice Faye DuncanHey Otter! Hey Beaver! by Brian PinkneyDear Star Baby by Malcolm NewsomeFadya and the Song of the River by Laura NsafouMatchmaker #3 by Kelly Starling LyonsWash Day by Tiffany GoldenCurlfriends: New in Town (a Graphic Novel) by Sharee MillerNic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie ThomasSee You on the Other Side by Rachel Montez MinorA Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinneyThe Everlasting Rose (the Belles Series, Book 2) by Dhonielle ClaytonJackie Ormes Draws the Future: The Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist by Liz MontaguePlátanos Are Love by Alyssa Reynoso-MorrisMary Can! by Mary J. BligeBig by Vashti HarrisonInvincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America by Wade HudsonNigeria Jones by Ibi ZoboiJump In! by Shadra StricklandKetanji: Justice Jackson’s Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court by Kekla MagoonJust Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry PinkneyCan We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda PetrusTo Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela DaltonCome Home Safe by Brian BuckmireCornrows (2023) by Camille YarbroughSugar Plum Ballerinas Sugar Plums to the Rescue! #5 by Whoopi GoldbergThe Mermaid Princesses: A Sister Tale by Maya Cameron-GordonStacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena MontgomeryOnce in a Blue Moon by Sharon G. FlakeWhat Does Brown Mean To You? by Ron GradyA Boy and His Mirror by Marchánt DavisHow to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic StoneBig Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince by Alliah L. AgostiniAll Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration by Glenda ArmandFlipflopi: How a Boat Made from Flip-Flops Is Helping to Save the Ocean by Linda Ravin Lodding and Dipesh PabariThe (Young) Antiracist’s Workbook: Questions for Changemakers by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic StoneThe Rhythm of Time by Questlove and S. A. CosbyI’m Going to Have a Good Day!: Daily Affirmations with Scarlett by Tiania Haneline and Scarlett Gray SmithForgive Me Not by Jennifer BakerSchool Trip by Jerry CraftMy Baba’s Garden by Jordan ScottLittle Troublemaker Makes a Mess by Luvvie Ajayi JonesGarvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel by Nikki GrimesHurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late! by Janice N. HarringtonNow Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Brahm RevelBreaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance by William Loren KatzHow Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston WeatherfordBirmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston WeatherfordYoung, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia WilsonPromise Boys by Nick BrooksThe Belles by Dhonielle ClaytonI Am Big by Itah SaduMy Red, White, and Blue by Alana TysonThe Courage of the Little Hummingbird: A Tale Told Around the World by Leah HendersonA Walk in the Woods by Nikki GrimesLittle Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney BarlowThe Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. KendiFresh Juice by Robert Liu-TrujilloTrack Star #4 by Kelly Starling LyonsHappy with My Nappy by Gina JarrellGordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston WeatherfordThe Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, the Big Ways We’re the Same by Linsey DavisThe Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story by Glenda ArmandSalat in Secret by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowA Flag for Juneteenth by Kim TaylorAn American Story by Kwame AlexanderShe Persisted: Dorothy Height by Kelly Starling LyonsHonest June: Secrets and Spies by Tina WellsWe Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBrideJustice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Katheryn Russell-BrownRemember Us by Jacqueline WoodsonA Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen ReidYou Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce by Carmella Van Vleet and Chiquita Mullins LeeThe Bronx Is My Home by Alyssa Reynoso-MorrisRepeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé HillMadam C. J. Walker Builds a Business by Denene MillnerA Family Prayer by Shay YoungbloodLooking for Happy by Ty ChapmanYou Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland by Carole Boston WeatherfordSimon B. Rhymin’ Gets in the Game by Dwayne ReedNot an Easy Win by Chrystal D. GilesJuneteenth by Van G. GarrettThe Noisy Classroom Goes to the Museum by Angela ShantéSandy Toes: A Summer Adventure by Shauntay GrantFigure It Out, Henri Weldon by Tanita S. DavisHistory Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes by Tracey BaptisteHow to Write a Poem by Kwame AlexanderPut Your Shoes On & Get Ready! by Raphael G. WarnockSun Keep Rising by Kristen R. LeeYou So Black by Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.Breaking to the Beat! by Linda J. AcevedoThe Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music by Roberta Flack and Tonya BoldenHarlem at Four by Michael DatcherThere Was a Party for Langston by Jason ReynoldsRock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya BoldenColin Kaepernick: Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. EwingCape by Kevin JohnsonLittle Daymond Learns to Earn by Daymond JohnA Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music by Jabari AsimBaby, Sleepy Baby by AtinukeJelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson