The 1,401 Most Critically Acclaimed Children’s Books since 1948
How are these books selected?
The goal of this list is to highlight books praised by the Black community. To appear on this list, a book must have earned an "honor" which includes winning a recognized literary award, appearing on an AALBC or BLK bestseller list, or being selected for inclusion on a prominent book club's reading list. Sources used to compile this list include, but are not limited to, these awards.
The goal of this list is to highlight books praised by the Black community. To appear on this list, a book must have earned an "honor" which includes winning a recognized literary award, appearing on an AALBC or BLK bestseller list, or being selected for inclusion on a prominent book club's reading list. Sources used to compile this list include, but are not limited to, these awards.
Children’s Titles
- Amari and the Metalwork Menace by B. B. Alston (2026)
- Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game by Kadir Nelson (2026)
- Carlotta’s Special Dress: How a Walk to School Changed Civil Rights History by Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier Page (2026)
- Lovely One (Adapted for Young Adults) by Ketanji Brown Jackson (2026)
- Prince: A Little Golden Book Biography by Nikki Shannon Smith (2026)
- Time for a Change by Questlove and S. A. Cosby (2026)
- (S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi (2025)
- A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne (2025)
- All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson (2025)
- Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou (2025)
- And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2025)
- Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale by Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders (2025)
- Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams (2025)
- Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis by Daria Peoples (2025)
- Billy Porter: A Little Golden Book Biography by Phil Stamper (2025)
- Black History Is Your History by Taylor Cassidy (2025)
- Blood at the Root (paperback) by LaDarrion Williams (2025)
- Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson (2025)
- Bones at the Crossroads by LaDarrion Williams (2025)
- City Summer, Country Summer by Kiese Laymon (2025)
- Creaky Acres: A Graphic Novel by Calista Brill and Nilah Magruder (2025)
- Dork Diaries 1 Full-Color Edition: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life by Rachel Renée Russell (2025)
- Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) by Nancy Johnson James (2025)
- Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer by Quartez Harris (2025)
- Harlem Honey: The Adventures of a Curious Kid by Tamron Hall (2025)
- Heartsick by Kristina Forest (2025)
- Hello There, Sunshine by Tabitha Brown (2025)
- Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias (2025)
- How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America by Kwame Alexander (2025)
- How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America by Clint Smith (2025)
- I Got You by Derrick Barnes (2025)
- J vs. K by Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft (2025)
- Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits by Kwame Mbalia (2025)
- Knucklehead: Poems by Tony Keith Jr. (2025)
- Lucy Sings on Lucy Street by Lawrence E. Roberts II and Sally-Ann Roberts (2025)
- Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers by Ibram X. Kendi (2025)
- Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours (2025)
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi by Angie Thomas (2025)
- One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome (2025)
- Payback Girls by Alex Travis (2025)
- Rosa Parks: A Little Golden Book Biography by Shasta Clinch (2025)
- Secret Library (paperback) by Kekla Magoon (2025)
- See Marcus Grow by Marcus Bridgewater (2025)
- Serena Williams: A Little Golden Book Biography by Bria Alston (2025)
- Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi (2025)
- Split the Sky by Marie Arnold (2025)
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds (2025)
- The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum (2025)
- The History of We by Nikkolas Smith (2025)
- The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes (2025)
- The Leaving Room by Amber McBride (2025)
- The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey (2025)
- The Littlest Drop by Sascha Alper (2025)
- The Sunshine Queens by Sherri Shepherd (2025)
- Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback) by Bernette Ford (2025)
- Under the Neon Lights by Arriel Vinson (2025)
- Who Is Beyonce? by Kirsti Jewel (2025)
- Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2025)
- All I Need to Be by Rachel Ricketts (2024)
- Amara: The Rise of the Shadow Blossoms by The Fikes Brothers (2024)
- Amari and the Despicable Wonders by B. B. Alston (2024)
- American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein (2024)
- Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi (2024)
- Beasts of War by Ayana Gray (2024)
- Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker (2024)
- Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson (2024)
- Black Star by Kwame Alexander (2024)
- Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda (2024)
- Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams (2024)
- Briarcliff Prep Sophomore Year by Brianna Peppins (2024)
- Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Leslé Honoré (2024)
- Brushed Between Cultures by Samarra St. Hilaire (2024)
- Chaos Theory by Nic Stone (2024)
- Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi (2024)
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (2024)
- Cicely Tyson by Renée Watson (2024)
- Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel by Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds (2024)
- Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King (2024)
- Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair by Carole Boston Weatherford (2024)
- Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts by Ruby Bridges (2024)
- Discovering Juneteenth: A History of Freedom by Aaron G. Jahi (2024)
- Doll Test: Choosing Equality by Carole Boston Weatherford (2024)
- Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott (2024)
- Elijah’s Easter Suit by Brentom Jackson (2024)
- Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava by Gary Golio (2024)
- Flying Through Water by Mamle Wolo (2024)
- Freedom Fire: Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood by Leah Johnson (2024)
- Freedom Fire: Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek by Kwame Mbalia (2024)
- Gamerville by Johnnie Christmas (2024)
- Ghost Roast by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs (2024)
- Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J. McDaniel (2024)
- I Am More Than by Lebron James (2024)
- I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. (2024)
- I Would Love You Still by Adrea Theodore (2024)
- If My Hair Had a Voice by Dana Marie Miroballi (2024)
- Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma (2024)
- Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender (2024)
- Invisible Son by Kim Johnson (2024)
- I’m Proud of You by Craig Melvin (2024)
- Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows (2024)
- Kamala Raised Her Hand by Raakhee Mirchandani (2024)
- Kingdom of Dust by Lisa Stringfellow (2024)
- Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer (2024)
- Lebron James: A Little Golden Book Biography by Shasta Clinch (2024)
- Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams (2024)
- Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel (Reprint) by Jason Reynolds (2024)
- Muhammad Ali: A Little Golden Book Biography by Frank Berrios (2024)
- My Daddy Is a Cowboy: A Picture Book by Stephanie Seales (2024)
- My Hair Can by Matt Forté (2024)
- My Hair Is a Book by Maisha Oso (2024)
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas (2024)
- Out of My Dreams by Sharon M. Draper (2024)
- Out of My Heart (Paperback) by Sharon M. Draper (2024)
- Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste (2024)
- Priceless Facts about Money by Mellody Hobson (2024)
- Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise (2024)
- Ruby René Had So Much to Say by Ashley Iman (2024)
- Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams (2024)
- Stacey Speaks Up by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery (2024)
- Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (2024)
- Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury (2024)
- The Band in Our Basement: A Picture Book by Kelly J. Baptist (2024)
- The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community by Ibtihaj Muhammad (2024)
- The Davenports More Than This by Krystal Marquis (2024)
- The Day Madear Voted by Wade Hudson (2024)
- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander (2024)
- The Heart Never Forgets by Ana Ot (2024)
- The Life-Changing Magic of Chess: A Beginner’s Guide with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley by Maurice Ashley (2024)
- The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon (2024)
- The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté (2024)
- This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings (2024)
- Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2024)
- Twenty-Four Seconds from Now …: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds (2024)
- Warrior on the Mound by Sandra W. Headen (2024)
- We Dream a World: Carrying the Light from My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King by Yolanda Renee King (2024)
- When I Wrap My Hair by Shauntay Grant (2024)
- Who Are Your People? by Bakari Sellers (2024)
- Willie Mays: A Little Golden Book Biography by Anne Wynter (2024)
- You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book by Taraji P. Henson (2024)
- You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (2024)
- Zendaya: A Little Golden Book Biography by Lauren Clauss (2024)
- Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd (2023)
- A Flag for Juneteenth by Kim Taylor (2023)
- A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen Reid (2023)
- A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes (2023)
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (2023)
- All Good in the Hood by Dwayne Reed (2023)
- All That It Ever Meant by Blessing Musariri (2023)
- An American Story by Kwame Alexander (2023)
- Beyonce: A Little Golden Book Biography by Lavaille Lavette (2023)
- Big by Vashti Harrison (2023)
- Black Girls by Dominique Furukawa (2023)
- Brown Sugar Baby Sweetest Love by Kevin Lewis (2023)
- C is for Curly by Markita Staples-Green (2023)
- Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough (2023)
- Curlfriends: New in Town (a Graphic Novel) by Sharee Miller (2023)
- Dork Diaries 15: Tales from a Not-So-Posh Paris Adventure by Rachel Renée Russell (2023)
- Duel by Jessixa Bagley (2023)
- Flipflopi: How a Boat Made from Flip-Flops Is Helping to Save the Ocean by Linda Ravin Lodding and Dipesh Pabari (2023)
- Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner) by Amina Luqman-Dawson (2023)
- Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel by Nikki Grimes (2023)
- Hair Love ABCs by Matthew A. Cherry (2023)
- How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford (2023)
- Hurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late! by Janice N. Harrington (2023)
- I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden (2023)
- Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda Armand (2023)
- Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson (2023)
- Keyana Loves Her Friend (#2) by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (2023)
- Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford (2023)
- Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow (2023)
- More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Michael G. Long and Yohuru Williams (2023)
- My Hair Is Like the Sun by St. Clair Detrick-Jules (2023)
- My Red, White, and Blue by Alana Tyson (2023)
- Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter (2023)
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas (2023)
- Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi (2023)
- Oprah Winfrey: A Little Golden Book Biography by Alliah L. Agostini (2023)
- Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson (2023)
- Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill (2023)
- Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual for Teens by Luvvie Ajayi Jones (2023)
- Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging by Eric Adjepong (2023)
- School Trip (Paperback) by Jerry Craft (2023)
- See You on the Other Side by Rachel Montez Minor (2023)
- Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman (2023)
- Stranger Things: Lucas on the Line by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (2023)
- The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert (2023)
- The Dream Big, Little One Collection by Vashti Harrison (2023)
- The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj Muhammad (2023)
- The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi (2023)
- The Mermaid Princesses: A Sister Tale by Maya Cameron-Gordon (2023)
- The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver (paperback) by Gene Barretta (2023)
- The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (2023)
- There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia (2023)
- There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds (2023)
- Together We Swim by Valerie Bolling (2023)
- Track Star #4 by Kelly Starling Lyons (2023)
- Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2023)
- Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington by Michael G. Long (2023)
- Ways to Share Joy by Renée Watson (2023)
- We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens (2023)
- We Eat to Remember: Soul Food Poetry by Fabu Phillis Carter (2023)
- Who Is Lebron James? by Crystal Hubbard (2023)
- Who Was John Lewis? by Crystal Hubbard (2023)
- Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia Wilson (2023)
- Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams (2023)
- Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love by Michelle Edwards (2022)
- A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music by Jabari Asim (2022)
- A History of Me by Adrea Theodore (2022)
- Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas by Jeanne Walker Harvey (2022)
- Ain’t Burned All The Bright by Jason Reynolds (2022)
- Akie & Ebuka Got into Trouble by Uzoma R. Ezekwudo (2022)
- Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston (2022)
- Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink (2022)
- Barack Obama: A Little Golden Book Biography by Frank Berrios (2022)
- Because of You, John Lewis by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2022)
- Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander (2022)
- Black Gold by Laura Obuobi (2022)
- Blackout by Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, and others (2022)
- Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (2022)
- Boonoonoonous Hair by Olive Senior (2022)
- Bottle Tops: The Art of El Anatsui by Alison Goldberg (2022)
- Brown Sugar Baby by Kevin Lewis (2022)
- Children of the Quicksands by Efua Traoré (2022)
- Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy (2022)
- Concrete Rose: A Printz Honor Winner by Angie Thomas (2022)
- Cookies & Milk by Shawn Amos (2022)
- Emile and the Field by Kevin Young (2022)
- Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (2022)
- Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega (2022)
- Future Hero by Remi Blackwood (2022)
- Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography by JaNay Brown-Wood (2022)
- Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola (2022)
- How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta (2022)
- I Am Ruby Bridges by Ruby Bridges (2022)
- Inheritance: A Visual Poem by Elizabeth Acevedo (2022)
- Kindergarten: Where Kindness Matters Every Day by Vera Ahiyya (2022)
- Legendborn (Reprint) by Tracy Deonn (2022)
- Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions by Richard Turere and Shelly Pollock (2022)
- Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel (Paperback) by Jason Reynolds (2022)
- Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution by Sherri Winston (2022)
- Love in the Age of Dragons by Fatima R. Henson (2022)
- Magnolia Flower by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi (2022)
- Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior by Ed Clayton (2022)
- Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir by Liz Montague (2022)
- Me and Muhammad Ali by Jabari Asim (2022)
- Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’) by Layla Saad (2022)
- Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman (2022)
- Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams (2022)
- More Than Peach (an Original Picture Book) by Bellen Woodard (2022)
- On My Papa’s Shoulders by Niki Daly (2022)
- Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tolá Okogwu (2022)
- Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth by Alice Faye Duncan (2022)
- Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama by Ashley Woodfolk (2022)
- Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel by Kwame Mbalia (2022)
- Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney (2022)
- Shout for Joy!: Psalm 100 Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (2022)
- Stacey Abrams: Lift Every Voice by Sarah Warren (2022)
- Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery (2022)
- Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper (2022)
- Standing in the Need of Prayer (paperback): A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford (2022)
- Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi (2022)
- Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas (2022)
- The Black Kids (Reprint) by Christina Hammonds Reed (2022)
- The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris (2022)
- The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack (2022)
- The Door of No Return (hardcover) by Kwame Alexander (2022)
- The Flag Never Touched the Ground: America’s Brave Black Regiment in Battle by Kekla Magoon (2022)
- The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner by Angie Thomas (2022)
- The History of Juneteenth: A History Book for New Readers by Arlisha Norwood (2022)
- The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States by Alliah L. Agostini (2022)
- The Kaya Girl by Mamle Wolo (2022)
- The Queen Of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes (2022)
- The Story of Juneteenth by Dorena Williamson (2022)
- The Talk by Alicia D. Williams (2022)
- The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (2022)
- The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson (2022)
- Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic by Kelly Starling Lyons (2022)
- Until Someone Listens: A Story about Borders, Family, and One Girl’s Mission by Estela Juarez with Lissette Norman (2022)
- Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile (2022)
- Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile (2022)
- We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (2022)
- What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel (2022)
- When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s Lost Generation and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision by Yolanda Gladden (2022)
- Words With Wings by Nikki Grimes (2022)
- 20th Century African American History for Kids: The Major Events That Shaped the Past and Present by Margeaux Weston (2021)
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (2021)
- Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke (2021)
- African Proverbs for All Ages by Johnnetta Betsch Cole (2021)
- B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke (2021)
- Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson (2021)
- Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland (2021)
- Black Inventors: 15 Inventions That Changed the World by Kathy Trusty (2021)
- Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles (2021)
- Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon (2021)
- Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson (2021)
- Calvin by JR Ford and Vanessa Ford (2021)
- Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman (2021)
- Clean Getaway by Nic Stone (2021)
- Crossing the Stream by Elizabeth-Irene Baitie (2021)
- Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes (2021)
- Everybody in the Red Brick Building by Anne Wynter (2021)
- Glow by Ruth Forman (2021)
- Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (2021)
- Honest June by Tina Wells (2021)
- I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks (2021)
- Imbila’s Tale: An English/Zulu Flipbook for Children by Desaray Mnyandu (2021)
- It Doesn’t Take a Genius by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (2021)
- J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard (2021)
- Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams (2021)
- Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia (2021)
- Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence by Useni Eugene Perkins (2021)
- Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes (2021)
- Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied (2021)
- Many Shapes of Clay: a Story of Healing by Kenesha Sneed (2021)
- Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales to the Rescue!: Meet the Amazing Web-Slinger! by David Fentiman (2021)
- Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing (2021)
- Me (Moth) by Amber McBride (2021)
- Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady Planted Seeds of Change by Sharee Miller (2021)
- Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) by justin a. reynolds (2021)
- My Voice Is a Trumpet by Jimmie Allen (2021)
- New Kid and Class Act: The Box Set by Jerry Craft (2021)
- Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd (2021)
- One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite (2021)
- Opal’s Greenwood Oasis by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton (2021)
- Osasu and the Great Wall of the Benin Empire by Tamkara Adun (2021)
- Papa’s Free Day Party by Marilyn Nelson (2021)
- Rebound by Kwame Alexander (2021)
- Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon (2021)
- Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa (2021)
- Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen (2021)
- Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham (2021)
- Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery (2021)
- Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds (2021)
- Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds (2021)
- Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn (2021)
- The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa (2021)
- The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert (2021)
- The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman (2021)
- The Life I’m In by Sharon G. Flake (2021)
- The Me I Choose to Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (2021)
- The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi (2021)
- The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. by Johnny Ray Moore (2021)
- Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa (2021)
- Too Small Tola by Atinuke (2021)
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford (2021)
- Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels by Virginia Hamilton (2021)
- Wanda by Sihle-isipho Nontshokweni (2021)
- Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson (2021)
- We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson (2021)
- We Wait For The Sun by Katie McCabe (2021)
- When My Cousins Come to Town by Angela Shanté (2021)
- A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero (2020)
- A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross (2020)
- A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson (2020)
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée (2020)
- A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart by Zetta Elliott (2020)
- A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story by Sharon Langley (2020)
- A Story About Afiya by James Berry (2020)
- A Voice Named Aretha by Katheryn Russell-Brown (2020)
- Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant (2020)
- African by Peter Tosh (2020)
- All Because You Matter by Tami Charles (2020)
- All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor (2020)
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
- Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers (2020)
- Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd (2020)
- Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes (2020)
- Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson (2020)
- Black Brave Beautiful: A Badass Black Girl’s Coloring Book by M.J. Fievre (2020)
- Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2020)
- Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith (2020)
- Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy (2020)
- Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford (2020)
- Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl Willis Hudson (2020)
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- Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas by Gwendolyn Hooks (2016)
- We Came to America by Faith Ringgold (2016)
- Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton (2016)
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- Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson (2015)
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- Hoodoo by Ronald L. Smith (2015)
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- One Word from Sophia by Jim Averbeck (2015)
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- Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate (2015)
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- Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama by Hester Bass (2015)
- Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty (Captured History) by Michael Burgan (2015)
- Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People by S.D. Nelson (2015)
- Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper (2015)
- The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton (2015)
- The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (2015)
- The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds (2015)
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- Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane W. Evans (2015)
- Untwine by Edwidge Danticat (2015)
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford (2015)
- When I Was the Greatest (paperback) by Jason Reynolds (2015)
- X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz (2015)
- You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace by Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson (2015)
- An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin (2014)
- Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior (2014)
- Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4) by Michaela and Elaine Deprince (2014)
- Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer by Tonya Bolden (2014)
- Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America by Russell Freedman (2014)
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014)
- Catfish by Nina Foxx (2014)
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (2014)
- Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers (2014)
- Dog Days by Karen English (2014)
- Dork Diaries 7: Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star by Rachel Renée Russell (2014)
- Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After by Rachel Renée Russell (2014)
- Dream Big: Michael Jordan and the Pursuit of Excellence by Deloris Jordan (2014)
- Firebird by Misty Copeland (2014)
- Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer by Maya Angelou (2014)
- Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin (2014)
- How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson (2014)
- How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon (2014)
- I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer (2014)
- Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell (2014)
- Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith (2014)
- Little Lion Goes to School by Kellie Magnus (2014)
- Little Melba And Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown (2014)
- Ludell by Brenda Wilkinson (2014)
- Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz (2014)
- Midnight and the Man Who Had No Tears by Tiffany Golden (2014)
- One Million Men And Me by Kelly Starling Lyons (2014)
- Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy) by Deborah Wiles (2014)
- Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America by Tonya Bolden (2014)
- Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (2014)
- Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood by Carole Boston Weatherford (2014)
- Tate and His Historic Dream by Bernard C. Turner and Michelle Duster (2014)
- The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Hidden Temple of Ogiso (Book 1) by O.T. Begho (2014)
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (2014)
- The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell (2014)
- The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield (2014)
- The Good Braider by Terry Farish (2014)
- The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis (2014)
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (2014)
- The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2014)
- The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson (2014)
- The Words of Martin Luther King by Coretta Scott King (2014)
- Willow by Tonya Cherie Hegamin (2014)
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara (2013)
- Big Hair, Don’t Care by Crystal Swain-Bates (2013)
- Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson (2013)
- Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton (2013)
- Color My Fro: A Natural Hair Coloring Book for Big Hair Lovers of All Ages by Crystal Swain-Bates (2013)
- Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers) by Tanya Lee Stone (2013)
- Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore (2013)
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- Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout (2013)
- Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln And The Dawn Of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (2013)
- Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon (2013)
- Grandma’s Gift by Eric Velasquez (2013)
- Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (2013)
- Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band by Anne F. Rockwell (2013)
- I Am Mixed by Garcelle Beauvais (2013)
- In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall by Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma (2013)
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- I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl! by Betty K. Bynum (2013)
- Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me by Daniel Beaty (2013)
- Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2013)
- Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (2013)
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- When The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill (2013)
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- 145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers (2012)
- A is for Ayiti by Ibi Zoboi (2012)
- Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller (Center for Cartoon Studies Presents) by Joseph Lambert (2012)
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- Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice (2012)
- Dork Diaries 4: Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess by Rachel Renée Russell (2012)
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- Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin (2012)
- The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams (2012)
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- Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu (2010)
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- Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl by Rachel Renée Russell (2010)
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- Girl of Mine by Jabari Asim (2010)
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- I Can Do It Too! by Karen Baicker (2010)
- I Got Bank!: What My Granddad Taught Me About Money by Teri Williams (2010)
- I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (2010)
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- Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones (2010)
- The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (2010)
- The Great Migration: Journey To The North by Eloise Greenfield (2010)
- The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend by Ann Ingalls (2010)
- The Rock And The River by Kekla Magoon (2010)
- The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Coles (2010)
- Yummy: The Last Days Of A Southside Shorty by G. Neri (2010)
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- Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement) by Clifford W. Mills (2009)
- Aya The Secrets Come Out: Volume Three by Marguerite Abouet (2009)
- Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (2009)
- Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (2009)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney (2009)
- Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life by Rachel Renée Russell (2009)
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- Game by Walter Dean Myers (2009)
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- Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up by Melissa Thomson (2009)
- Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny by Hill Harper (2009)
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- My People by Langston Hughes (2009)
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- Amazing Peace by Maya Angelou (2008)
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- Peekaboo Morning by Rachel Isadora (2008)
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- Somewhere In The Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (2008)
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- The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston (2008)
- The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History) by James Haskins (2008)
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- You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy (2008)
- Bang! by Sharon G. Flake (2007)
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- Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (2007)
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- Rosa by Nikki Giovanni (2007)
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- Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku by Ellie Crowe (2007)
- The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington (2007)
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- Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen (2007)
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- Who Am I Without Him? by Sharon G. Flake (2007)
- Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman (2007)
- Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers (2006)
- Bronzeville Boys And Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks (2006)
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- Chill Wind by Janet McDonald (2006)
- Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim (2006)
- For You Are a Kenyan Child by Kelly Cunnane (2006)
- Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards)) by Russell Freedman (2006)
- Gordon Parks: No Excuses by Ann Parr (2006)
- Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community by David Hassler (2006)
- John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement by Kathleen Benson (2006)
- Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn (2006)
- M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton (2006)
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford (2006)
- Nothing But Drama (Good Girlz) by ReShonda Tate Billingsley (2006)
- Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee (2006)
- Poetry For Young People: Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes (2006)
- Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra Pinkney (2006)
- Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester (2006)
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (2006)
- The Planet Of Junior Brown (2006) by Virginia Hamilton (2006)
- United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones) by Susan Dudley Gold (2006)
- Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America by Deborah Hopkinson (2006)
- We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt (2006)
- 47 by Walter Mosley (2005)
- Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series) by Mildred Pitts Walter (2005)
- Brothers In Hope by Mary Williams (2005)
- Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers (Latino Biography Library) by Barbara C. Cruz (2005)
- He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson (2005)
- I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus (2005)
- Just the Two of Us by Will Smith (2005)
- Let The Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (2005)
- Let Them Play (True Story) by Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison (2005)
- Love to Langston by Tony Medina (2005)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (Heroes of America) by Herb Boyd (2005)
- Me & Neesie by Eloise Greenfield (2005)
- No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller (2005)
- Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia C. Mckissack (2005)
- Roberto Clemente: Baseball’s Humanitarian Hero (Trailblazer Biographies) by Heron Marquez (2005)
- Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter (2005)
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson (2005)
- The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter (2005)
- Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters) by John Duggle (2005)
- Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (2005)
- Visiting Langston by Willie Perdomo (2005)
- Willimena Rules! Rule Book #4: How to (Almost) Ruin Your School Play (Bk. 4) by Valerie Wilson Wesley (2005)
- A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson by Michelle Y Green (2004)
- All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals by Ashley Bryan (2004)
- Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies (Enslow)) by Barbara C. Cruz (2004)
- Black Is Brown Is Tan by Arnold Adoff (2004)
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (2004)
- Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange (2004)
- Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman by Louise Borden (2004)
- Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson (2004)
- Grandma’s Records by Eric Velasquez (2004)
- Jazzy Miz Mozetta by Brenda C. Roberts (2004)
- Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac (2004)
- Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist by Lesa Cline-Ransome (2004)
- Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden (2004)
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers (2004)
- Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison (2004)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (2004)
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History) by Robert H. Mayer (2004)
- The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (Kingfisher Encyclopedias) by Editors of Kingfisher (2004)
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton (2004)
- The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors) by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin (2004)
- The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (2004)
- Willimena Rules! Rule Book #2: How to Fish for Trouble (No. 2) by Valerie Wilson Wesley (2004)
- Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (2003)
- American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (Young Readers Adaptation) by Gail Lumet Buckley (2003)
- Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan (2003)
- Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes (2003)
- Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen (2003)
- Days Of Jubilee by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (2003)
- Freight Train by Donald Crews (2003)
- God Bless the Child by Arthur Herzog, Jr. (2003)
- Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull (2003)
- History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series) by James Tackach (2003)
- Hush by Jacqueline Woodson (2003)
- I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (2003)
- In America’s Shadow by Kimberly Komatsu, Kaleigh Komatsu, and Mitchell T. Maki (2003)
- In The Land Of Words: New And Selected Poems by Eloise Greenfield (2003)
- Max Paints the House by Ken Wilson-Max (2003)
- My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me by Maya Angelou (2003)
- Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit) by Sharon Linnea (2003)
- Sacagawea by Liselotte Erdrich and Julie Buffalohead (2003)
- Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan (2003)
- Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover)) by Mary Butler (2003)
- Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry by Bebe Moore Campbell (2003)
- Song Of The Trees by Mildred D. Taylor (2003)
- The Creation by James Weldon Johnson (2003)
- The Fall of Rome: A Novel by Martha Southgate (2003)
- The Land by Mildred D. Taylor (2003)
- The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods (2003)
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow by Richard Wormser (2003)
- Uptown (An Owlet Book) by Bryan Collier (2003)
- West African Folk Tales (African American) by Hugh Vernon-Jackson (2003)
- Ananse And The Lizard: A West African Tale by Pat Cummings (2002)
- Atlas of Asian-American History (Facts on File Library of American History) by Monique Avakian (2002)
- Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance by James Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson (2002)
- Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia by Richard Griswold del Castillo (2002)
- Christmas In The Big House: Christmas In The Quarters by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (2002)
- Elizabeti’s Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (2002)
- Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers) by Martha E. Rhynes (2002)
- If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong by Roxane Orgill (2002)
- Marvelous Me: Inside and Out by Lisa Bullard (2002)
- Only Passing Through by Anne F. Rockwell (2002)
- Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles - Think of That! by Leo and Diane Dillon (2002)
- Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper (2002)
- Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (2002)
- Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes (2002)
- The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History) by Cathy Moore (2002)
- The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases) by Harvey Fireside (2002)
- Why Heaven Is Far Away by Julius Lester (2002)
- Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan (2001)
- Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (2001)
- Children of the Civil Rights Era by Catherine A. Welch (2001)
- Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song by Katherine E. Krohn (2001)
- Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback)) by Laura Baskes Litwin and Luara Baskes Litwin (2001)
- Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity (Hot Issues) by Barbara C. Cruz (2001)
- Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier by Alice Hinkle (2001)
- Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis (2001)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (2001)
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (2001)
- The Bat Boy and His Violin by Gavin Curtis (2001)
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (2001)
- A Hero Ain’t Nothin But a Sandwich by Alice Childress (2000)
- Afro-Bets Book of Colors: Meet the Color Family by Margery W. Brown (2000)
- Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History by James Haskins (2000)
- Children of the Relocation Camps (Picture the American Past) by Catherine A. Welch (2000)
- Daddy Calls Me Man by Angela Johnson (2000)
- Dancing In The Wings by Debbie Allen (2000)
- Heaven by Angela Johnson (2000)
- I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas (2000)
- Issues in Racism by Mary E. Williams (2000)
- Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes (2000)
- Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2000)
- Marian Anderson by Charles Patterson (2000)
- Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson (2000)
- Running The Road To ABC (Aladdin Picture Books) by Denize Lauture (2000)
- Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin (2000)
- The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson (2000)
- The Piano Man by Debbi Chocolate (2000)
- The Sound That Jazz Makes by Carole Boston Weatherford (2000)
- The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000)
- To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (2000)
- Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull (2000)
- Wings by Christopher Myers (2000)
- African Folk Tales (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics) by Hugh Vernon-Jackson (1999)
- Black Cat by Christopher Myers (1999)
- Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (1999)
- Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas (1999)
- Children of the Tlingit (World’s Children) by Frank J. Staub (1999)
- Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse (1999)
- Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter by Nanette Mellage, Cornelius Van Wright, and Ying-Hwa Hu (1999)
- Grandmama’s Joy by Eloise Greenfield (1999)
- I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) by Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1999)
- In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson (1999)
- John Henry by Julius Lester (1999)
- Jump Back, Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1999)
- Kevin And His Dad by Irene Smalls (1999)
- Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas (English and Spanish Edition) by Carmen Lomas Garza (1999)
- Mary: An Autobiography (Chapel Hill Books) by Mary E. Mebane (1999)
- My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa M. Mollel (1999)
- Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition by Peter Nabokov (1999)
- Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, Haki R. Madhubuti, Lucille Clifton and 8 others (1999)
- The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci (1999)
- Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (1999)
- Another Way to Dance by Martha Southgate (1998)
- Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (Polaris) by Patricia C. Mckissack (1998)
- Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen (1998)
- Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (1998)
- Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble by Rinna Evelyn Wolfe (1998)
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (1998)
- Goggles by Ezra Jack Keats (1998)
- Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? by Sandy Lynne Holman (1998)
- Little Eight John (Picture Puffins) by Jan Wahl (1998)
- Maya Angelou: Journey of the Heart by Jayne Pettit (1998)
- Nappy Hair by Carolivia Herron (1998)
- Singing Black: Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children by Mari Evans (1998)
- Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence by John Duggleby (1998)
- The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor (1998)
- The Gold Cadillac by Mildred D. Taylor (1998)
- The Riches of Oseola McCarty by Evelyn Coleman (1998)
- Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree K. Mitchell (1998)
- Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a Difference by Joyce Hansen (1998)
- Buffalo Days by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (1997)
- Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough (1997)
- Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper (1997)
- Harlem by Walter Dean Myers (1997)
- I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 (Dear America Series) by Joyce Hansen (1997)
- Just an Overnight Guest by Eleanora E. Tate (1997)
- Kids Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson (1997)
- Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer (1997)
- Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Way People Live) by Diane Yancey (1997)
- Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney (1997)
- Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes (1997)
- Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. Mckissack (1997)
- Neeny Coming, Neeny Going by Karen English (1997)
- The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton (1997)
- The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 by Bill Cosby (1997)
- The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa by Doreen Rappaport (1997)
- The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale by Baba Wagué Diakité (1997)
- The Invisible Hunters/Los cazadores invisibles (Stories from Central America) by Harriet Rohmer, Octavio Chow, and Morris Viduare (1997)
- The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby (1997)
- The Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography) by Angela S. Medearis (1997)
- The Sweet and Sour Animal Book by Langston Hughes (1997)
- The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 by Bill Cosby (1997)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (1997)
- This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester (1997)
- Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights by Belinda Rochelle (1997)
- Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams (1997)
- Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (1996)
- Celebrating Hanukkah by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (1996)
- Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd (1996)
- Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets by Deborah Shink (1996)
- Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet by Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli (1996)
- Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder (1996)
- Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (1996)
- Night on Neighborhood Street (Picture Puffins) by Eloise Greenfield (1996)
- Ramadan by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi (1996)
- Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (1996)
- Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War Ii by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (1996)
- Shortcut by Donald Crews (1996)
- Slam! by Walter Dean Myers (1996)
- Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci (1996)
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (1996)
- The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom Diary by George W. Chilcoat and Michael O. Tunnell (1996)
- The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers (1996)
- The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums) by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler (1996)
- The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman and Amos Bad Heart Bull (1996)
- The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II by Jacqueline L. Harris (1996)
- What a Morning!: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals (Aladdin Picture Books) by John Langstaff (1996)
- A Fence Away From Freedom by Ellen S. Levine (1995)
- Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas (1995)
- Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales by Virginia Hamilton (1995)
- Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis (1995)
- Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American Girl by Tricia Brown (1995)
- Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave (We Are Still Here) by Monty Roessel (1995)
- The Captive (Apple Paperbacks) by Joyce Hansen (1995)
- The Friends by Rosa Guy (1995)
- The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence (1995)
- The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence (1995)
- Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney (1994)
- Harriet by Norma Johnston (1994)
- Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (1994)
- Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans) by Mary E. Lyons (1994)
- Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? by Patricia C. Mckissack (1994)
- The Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folktale by Angela S. Medearis (1994)
- Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Young Reader’s Hist- Civil War) by Zak Mettger (1994)
- What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies) by Jeri Ferris (1994)
- Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) by Virginia Hamilton (1993)
- Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States by Roger Echo-Hawk and Walter R. Echo-Hawk (1993)
- Celebrating Kwanzaa by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (1993)
- Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little (1993)
- Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent K. Ashabranner (1993)
- Every Man Heart Lay Down by Lorenz Graham (1993)
- I Am a Black Woman by Mari Evans (1993)
- Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou (1993)
- Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book) by Virginia Hamilton (1993)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement (Makers of America) by Lillie Patterson (1993)
- Sequoyah’s Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader by Janet Klausner (1993)
- Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans) by Mary E. Lyons (1993)
- The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be (Young Readers) by William J. Faulkner (1993)
- The March on Washington by James Haskins (1993)
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Leo and Diane Dillon (1993)
- Toning The Sweep by Angela Johnson (1993)
- When I Am Old With You (Orchard Paperbacks) by Angela Johnson (1993)
- All the Colors of the Race by Arnold Adoff (1992)
- Black Pioneers of Science and Invention by Louis Haber (1992)
- Everett Anderson’s Friend by Lucille Clifton (1992)
- Hoang Anh A Vietnamese-American Boy by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (1992)
- How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin (1992)
- Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel Feelings (1992)
- Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (1992)
- Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Muriel Feelings (1992)
- Teammates by Peter Golenbock (1992)
- The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Beatrice Siegel (1992)
- Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice by James Haskins (1992)
- Which Way Freedom? (Obi and Easter Trilogy) by Joyce Hansen (1992)
- Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman (1991)
- An Enchanted Hair Tale (Reading Rainbow Book) by Alexis De Veaux (1991)
- Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (1991)
- In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around The World by Virginia Hamilton (1991)
- James Van Derzee: The Picture Takin’ Man by James Haskins (1991)
- My First Trip to Africa by Atlantis T. Browder (1991)
- Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies) by Jeri Ferris (1991)
- New Kids In Town: Oral Histories Of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic Biography) by Janet Bode (1991)
- Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (1991)
- Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions by James Haskins (1991)
- Pueblo Storyteller by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (1991)
- The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’I by Fay Stanley (1991)
- The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by Sankofa and David A. Anderson (1991)
- Under The Sunday Tree by Eloise Greenfield (1991)
- A Thief in the Village: And Other Stories of Jamaica by James Berry (1990)
- Aida by Leontyne Price (1990)
- Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins (1990)
- Breaking the Chains by David Katz (1990)
- Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford (1990)
- Hector lives in the United States now: The story of a Mexican-American child by Joan Hewett (1990)
- Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman by Catherine Scheader (1990)
- Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner (1990)
- Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston by Mary E. Lyons (1990)
- Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz (1990)
- The Battle Of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper (1990)
- The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer (1990)
- The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor (1990)
- W.E.B. Dubois (Impact Biographies Series) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (1990)
- A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker’s American History Series for Young People) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (1989)
- Afro-Bets 1-2-3 Book by Cheryl Willis Hudson (1989)
- Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson (Trailblazer Biographies) by Jeri Ferris (1989)
- In Two Worlds: A Yu’pik Eskimo Family by Aylette Jenness (1989)
- Let’s Celebrate Kwanzaa: An Activity Book for Young Readers by Helen Davis Thompson and Chris Hall (1989)
- Paul Robeson: Hero Before His Time (Biographies) by Rebecca Larsen (1989)
- Tell Me a Story Mama by Angela Johnson (1989)
- The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci (1989)
- Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories) by Corinn Codye (1989)
- A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver by Aliki (1988)
- Buffalo Hunt by Russell Freedman (1988)
- Everett Anderson’s Goodbye by Lucille Clifton (1988)
- Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers (1988)
- Hispanic Voters: A Voice in American Politics by Judith Harlan (1988)
- Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield (1988)
- Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Joseph Moore (1988)
- Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth (Creative Minds Biography) by Jeri Ferris (1988)
- American Indians Today: Issues and Conflicts (Impact Books Series) by Judith Harlan (1987)
- Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott (1987)
- Black music in America: A history through its people by James Haskins (1987)
- Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux (1987)
- Into a strange land: Unaccompanied refugee youth in America by Brent K. Ashabranner (1987)
- Jamaica’s Find by Juanita Havill (1987)
- Motown and Didi (Polk Street Special) by Walter Dean Myers (1987)
- Teacup Full of Roses by Sharon Bell Mathis (1987)
- C.L.O.U.D.S. by Pat Cummings (1986)
- Children of the Maya by Brent K. Ashabranner (1986)
- Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon (1986)
- Happily May I Walk: American Indians and Alaska Natives Today by Arlene Hirschfelder (1986)
- Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems by Ashley Bryan (1986)
- Living in Two Worlds by Maxine B. Rosenberg and George Ancona (1986)
- Surprises (I Can Read Book 3) by Lee Bennett Hopkins (1986)
- The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton (1986)
- You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks by Sara Brooks (1986)
- A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton (1985)
- Don’t You Remember by Lucille Clifton (1985)
- Junius over far by Virginia Hamilton (1985)
- Racial Prejudice (Issues in American History) by Elaine Pascoe (1985)
- The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy (1985)
- Trouble’s Child by Mildred Pitts Walter (1985)
- A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams (1984)
- I Have a Sister—My Sister Is Deaf by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson (1984)
- James Van Derzee: The Picture-Takin’ Man by James Haskins (1984)
- Just Us Women by Jeannette Caines (1984)
- Lena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne by James Haskins (1984)
- Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (Women of Our Time) by David A. Adler (1984)
- To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today by Brent K. Ashabranner (1984)
- Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter (1983)
- Mexico and the United States: Their Linked Destinies by Ernest Barksdale Fincher (1983)
- My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter (1983)
- Black Child by Peter Magubane (1982)
- I’m Going to Sing (Black American Spirituals, Vol. 2) by Ashley Bryan (1982)
- Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne Indians and America’s Energy Crisis by Brent K. Ashabranner (1982)
- Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress (1982)
- Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver (1981)
- Coming to North America: From Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico by Susan Garver and Paula McGuire (1981)
- Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield (1981)
- Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton (1981)
- Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor (1981)
- Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter (1981)
- Mother Crocodile by Rosa Guy (1981)
- Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum (Aladdin Books) by Ashley Bryan (1980)
- Count on Your Fingers African Style by Claudia Zaslavsky (1980)
- Daddy is a Monster … Sometimes by John Steptoe (1980)
- Guests in the Promised Land by Kristin Hunter (1980)
- The Hardest Lesson: Personal Accounts of a School Desegregation Crisis by Judith Stoia and Pamela Bullard (1980)
- This Life by Sidney Poitier (1980)
- A cry from the earth: Music of the North American Indians by John Bierhorst (1979)
- Andrew Young, Man With a Mission by James Haskins (1979)
- Movin’ Up, Pop Gordy Tells His Story by Berry Gordy (1979)
- The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers (1979)
- War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians by Nancy Wood (1979)
- Barbara Jordan by James Haskins (1978)
- Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America by Lillie Patterson (1978)
- Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass (1978)
- Something on My Mind by Nikki Grimes (1978)
- Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield (1977)
- Coretta Scott King (Americans All) by Lillie Patterson (1977)
- Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies) by Jane Goodsell and Haru Wells (1977)
- Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles (Prebound)) by Laurence Yep (1977)
- Mary McLeod Bethune (Crowell Biographies) by Eloise Greenfield (1977)
- Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart (1977)
- Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove (1976)
- Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass (Puffin books) by Ossie Davis (1976)
- Quiz Book on Black America by Clarence N. Blake and Donald F. Martin (1976)
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (1976)
- The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins (1976)
- The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction by Dorothy Sterling (1976)
- Duey’s Tale by Pearl Bailey (1975)
- Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa by Shirley Graham Du Bois (1975)
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema (1975)
- Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America) by Jesse Jackson (1974)
- The Ebony Book of Black Achievement by Margaret Peters (1974)
- The Legend of Africania (An Ebony Jr! Book) by Dorothy W. Robinson (1974)
- Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women by Louise Crane (1973)
- Mukasa by John Nagenda (1973)
- Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield (1973)
- And the Sun God Said: That’s Hip by Ernest Gregg (1972)
- I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett (1972)
- Black Troubadour by Langston Hughes (1971)
- Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax (1971)
- Black Means … by Barney Grossman (1970)
- Mary Jo’s Grandmother by Janice May Udry (1970)
- The Voice of the Children by June Jordan (1970)
- Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats (1964)
- Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (1948)
