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The Day You Begin
The Day You Begin Jacqueline Woodson 9780399246531 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA #1 NEW YORK T...
After Tupac and D Foster
After Tupac and D Foster Jacqueline Woodson 9780142413999 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A Newbery Honor BookJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Lite...
Behind You
Behind You Jacqueline Woodson 9780142415542 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A moving story of love and loss from National Book Award winner , Jacqueline Woodson. Great for fans of Angie Thom...
Feathers
Feathers Jacqueline Woodson 9780399239892 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’ss Literature...
The Negro Wage Earner
The Negro Wage Earner Lorenzo J. Greene and Carter G. Woodson 9781434472458 Nonfiction Wildside Press Wildside Press
Carter G. Woodson’s Appeal
Carter G. Woodson’s Appeal Carter G. Woodson 9780976811190 Nonfiction ASAALH ASAALH In 1921, a dozen years before he wrote his provocative classic, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson ...
Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 9780399252518 Poetry Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House “Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poe...
Peace, Locomotion
Peace, Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson 9780142415122 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House The stunning companion to the National Book Award finalist—from a three-time Newbery Honor winning authorJa...
Pecan Pie Baby
Pecan Pie Baby Jacqueline Woodson 9780147511287 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A sweet addition to the family is coming! Written by National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson. Il...
Show Way
Show Way Jacqueline Woodson 9780399237492 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature ...
If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Jacqueline Woodson 9780525515487 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate...
Beneath a Meth Moon
Beneath a Meth Moon Jacqueline Woodson 9780399252501 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureLaurel Daneau...
The Year We Learned to Fly
The Year We Learned to Fly Jacqueline Woodson 9780399545535 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López’s highly anticipated companion to their #1 New Y...
Red at the Bone
Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson 9780525535270 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Publishers Weekly selected Red at the Bone as one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles for the fall of 20...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
The Mis-Education of the Negro Carter G. Woodson 9781574781267 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African Ameri...
African Heroes and Heroines
African Heroes and Heroines Carter G. Woodson 9781574781281 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American...
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration Jacqueline Woodson 9780399239861 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration ...
Remember Us
Remember Us Jacqueline Woodson 9780399545467 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life...
Before the Ever After
Before the Ever After Jacqueline Woodson 9780399545436 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson’s stirring novel explores how a family moves forwa...
The Dream of America
The Dream of America Jacqueline Woodson 9780399252525 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson’s first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreamin...
Another Brooklyn: A Novel
Another Brooklyn: A Novel Jacqueline Woodson 9780062359988 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers...
Locomotion
Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson 9780142415528 Nonfiction Speak Penguin Random House Finalist for the National Book AwardWhen Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he’s eleven, and ...
The Dear One
The Dear One Jacqueline Woodson 9780142417058 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House An intriguing look at teen pregnancy from a three-time Newbery Honor winning authorJacqueline Woodson is the 201...
Lena
Lena Jacqueline Woodson 9780142417331 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A compelling story of survival from a three-time Newbery Honor winning authorJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 Nationa...
African Background Outlined
African Background Outlined Carter G. Woodson 9781574781328 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American...
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching Jarvis R. Givens 9780674983687 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press A fresh portrayal of one of the architect...
Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 Carter G. Woodson 9781574781342 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African...
History of the Negro Church
History of the Negro Church Carter G. Woodson 9781574781304 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American...
Visiting Day
Visiting Day Jacqueline Woodson 9780590400053 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson has written a poignant picture book about a little gir...
If You Come Softly
If You Come Softly Jacqueline Woodson 9780142415221 Fiction Speak Penguin Random House A heartbreaking contemporary romance from a three-time Newbery Honor winning authorJeremiah feels good inside his...
Carry the Quiet
Carry the Quiet Jacqueline Woodson 9780593696224 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A child finds a way to access inner peace—when the world around her feels anything but peaceful—in thi...
Between Madison and Palmetto
Between Madison and Palmetto Jacqueline Woodson 9780399237577 Fiction Putnam Juvenile Penguin Random House Maizon and Margaret are both living on Madison Street again, but somehow everything seems dif...
Sweet, Sweet Memory
Sweet, Sweet Memory Jacqueline Woodson 9780593530849 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson’s evocative story about the power of sharing memories, with glorious illustr...
Our Gracie Aunt
Our Gracie Aunt Jacqueline Woodson 9780593530870 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson gives us a tender and moving story about two siblings who don’t know what to expect...
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780525580454 Nonfiction Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Penguin Random House and Just Us Books Fifty of th...
We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past
We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past Jacqueline Woodson 9781423106814 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Teeka’s family had a picnic this Sunday past. Everyone was there, from mean old cousin Terran...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor 9781101993880 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A stunning repackage of Mildred D. Taylor’s Newbery Award-winning masterpiece wit...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
The Things I Could Tell You!
The Things I Could Tell You! J.L. Woodson 9780970269966 Nonfiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group The Things I Could Tell You! by J. L. Woodson, is the story of Cameron Spears, a Chicag...
The Other Side
The Other Side Jacqueline Woodson 9780399231162 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Clover’s mom says it isn’t safe to cross the fence that segregates their African...
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Jacqueline Woodson 9780142416419 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the ...
Everything Is You (Harlequin Kimani RomanceThe Lawsons Of)
Everything Is You (Harlequin Kimani RomanceThe Lawsons Of) Donna Hill 9780373862849 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Jacqueline Lawson is a maverick focusing on her career abroad...
Bedrock Faith
Bedrock Faith Eric Charles May 9781617751967 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books One of Roxane Gay’s Top 10 Books of 2014One of Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels of 2014One of the Chicago Reader’s Favori...
Each Kindness
Each Kindness Jacqueline Woodson 9780399246524 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Each kindness makes the world a little better This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by t...
Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History
Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History Schele Williams 9781419748752 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams “A lovingly written, beautifully illustrated and stunningly timely...
Gravity, U.S.A.
Gravity, U.S.A. Jacqueline Jones LaMon 9780974307022 Poetry Quercus Publishing Plc Quercus Publishing Plc Poetry. Kevin Young says of GRAVITY, U.S.A.: "With her debut, Jacqueline Jones LaMon graces us...
Miracle’s Boys
Miracle’s Boys Jacqueline Woodson 9780142415535 Fiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House From a three-time Newbery Honor author, a novel that was awarded the 2001 Coretta Scott King aw...
A Century of Negro Migration
A Century of Negro Migration Carter G. Woodson 9781574781663 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Woodson’s A Century of Negro Migration documents the movement of blacks living...
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women Catherine E. McKinley 9781620403532 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing This book focuses on promoting health eq...
Sweet, Sweet Memory (2007)
Sweet, Sweet Memory (2007) Jacqueline Woodson 9781423106807 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun A newer version is available. Now that Grandpa’s gone, Sarah tries to remember what he used to say a...
Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography
Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography Kim Coleman Foote 9781638931140 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Meet Kim Coleman Foote on Tour “Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops t...
The World Belonged To Us
The World Belonged To Us Jacqueline Woodson 9780399545498 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House “The World Belonged To Us is a celebration of playing – the collaborative, imaginative, joyfu...
Moonwalking
Moonwalking Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann 9780374314378 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers For fans of Jason Reynolds and Jacqueline Woodson, this...
Harbor Me
Harbor Me Jacqueline Woodson 9780525515142 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House
Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 9780147515827 Nonfiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This Jacqueline Woodson 9780142417041 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Twelve-year-old Marie is a leader among the popular black girls in Chauncey, Ohio, a prospero...
Our Gracie Aunt (2007)
Our Gracie Aunt (2007) Jacqueline Woodson 9781417791217 Fiction Turtleback Turtleback FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their aunt because their m...
Coming on Home Soon
Coming on Home Soon Jacqueline Woodson 9780399237485 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Ada Ruth’s mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It’s war tim...
The Dear One
The Dear One Jacqueline Woodson 9780399239687 Fiction Putnam Juvenile Penguin Random House Having had her mother all to herself for most of her life, Feni’s perfect world is disrupted when Rebecca, th...
The House You Pass On The Way
The House You Pass On The Way Jacqueline Woodson 9780399239694 Fiction Putnam Juvenile Penguin Random House When her aunt’s adopted daughter Tyler comes to stay with them for the summer, Staggerlee, a...
Hush
Hush Jacqueline Woodson 9780142500491 Fiction Speak Penguin Random House Toswiah Green’s life ended the moment her policeman father decided to testify against a fellow officer. The Greens have had to ...
Maizon at Blue Hill
Maizon at Blue Hill Jacqueline Woodson 9780698119574 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Maizon takes the biggest step in her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and says good...
Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Birthday
Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Birthday Jacqueline Woodson 9780671691066 Nonfiction Silver Press Silver Press Describes the life of the civil rights worker who is honored on Martin Luther King Day.
The Loss of All Lost Things
The Loss of All Lost Things Amina Gautier 9781932418569 Fiction Elixir Press Elixir Press Winner of the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award.Winner of a Royal Palm Literary AwardWinner of the F...
Anna Carries Water
Anna Carries Water Olive Senior 9781896580609 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her older brothers and siste...
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill Jericho Brown 9780063278189 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, D...
General Harriet Tubman
General Harriet Tubman Earl Conrad 9781574781687 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Written by Earl Conrad and originally published by Carter G. Woodson and the The Associated Publisher...
This Kid Can Fly: It’s about Ability (Not Disability)
This Kid Can Fly: It’s about Ability (Not Disability) Aaron Philip with Tonya Bolden 9780062403544 Nonfiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Hi there! I’m Aaron, and I have a disability called cerebral ...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine 9781555976903 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Po...
Wisdom: Blessings from Imperfections
Wisdom: Blessings from Imperfections J.L. Woodson and Naleighna Kai 9781952871443 Nonfiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Two Men. Two Callings. One Purpose. Build me an ark ...
The Poet X
The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo 9780062662804 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins A National Book Award Longlist title! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this ast...
Fashion Africa
Fashion Africa Jacqueline Shaw 9781909762008 Nonfiction Jacaranda Jacaranda Fashion Africa is a visual overview of contemporary African fashion compiled with an ethical perspective. This guide is the ...
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Caleb Gayle 9780593329603 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "An important part of American history told wi...
The Perfect Revenge (The Shady Sisters Trilogy)
The Perfect Revenge (The Shady Sisters Trilogy) Lutishia Lovely 9781617735028 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The Shady Sisters Trilogy In this sexy page-turner from Lutishia Lovely, a co...
The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews
The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews Jacqueline Bishop 9781845233150 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Beginning with the promptings of the transgressively erotic ...
My Mother Who is Me: Life Stories of Jamaican Women In New York
My Mother Who is Me: Life Stories of Jamaican Women In New York Jacqueline Bishop 9781592213443 Fiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Book by Bishop, Jacqueline
Influence
Influence Carl Weber 9781945855078 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as...
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present Jacqueline • Jones 9780465018819 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books The forces that shaped the institut...
Writers Who Paint Painters Who Write: 3 Jamaican Artists
Writers Who Paint Painters Who Write: 3 Jamaican Artists Jacqueline Bishop 9781845230647 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Exceptionally expressive paintings from three contemporary Carib...
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me Jacqueline Jones LaMon 9780345447197 Poetry One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House From fabulous new author Jacqueline Jones LaMon, a sexy page-turner that follows t...
The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) Jacqueline Bacon 9781570034343 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South ...
James (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
James (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Percival Everett 9780593686867 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, actio...
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 9781566892995 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams AwardWinner o...
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 9780375411557 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House National Bestseller • A Parade Best Book of All Time • From acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison co...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2014):Bringing it Forward Literary Activism
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2014):Bringing it Forward Literary Activism Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v5 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2...
Culture Worrier: Selected Columns 1984-2014: Reflections On Race, Politics And Social Change
Culture Worrier: Selected Columns 1984-2014: Reflections On Race, Politics And Social Change Clarence Page 9781932841923 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Pa...
The Blossom and the Firefly
The Blossom and the Firefly Sherri L. Smith 9781524737900 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of Flygirl comes this powerful WWII roma...
The Stone Sky (Book 3: The Broken Earth)
The Stone Sky (Book 3: The Broken Earth) N. K. Jemisin 9780316229241 Fiction FireFly Publishing FireFly Publishing Winner of the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel — 3rd consecutive win for Jemisin in thi...
Long Way Down (Paperback)
Long Way Down (Paperback) Jason Reynolds 9781481438261 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. “An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Ast...
Everything’s Not Lost
Everything’s Not Lost Frederick Joseph 9798217040599 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A heart-wrenching yet vividly hopeful novel about a Black girl’s struggle to find the q...
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet Tony Keith Jr. 9780063296008 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Odyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence Winner Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr...
Now We Will Be Happy
Now We Will Be Happy Amina Gautier 9780803255395 Fiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Rican...
Women of the Post
Women of the Post Joshunda Sanders 9780778334071 Fiction Park Row Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited "What a beautifully imagined and important narrative. Sanders’ clear-eyed and powerful writing mad...
All the Things We Never Knew
All the Things We Never Knew Liara Tamani 9780062656919 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins “Tamani masterfully bounces and slams two hearts up and down a shrouded court of first love and revelati...
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
The Stars Beneath Our Feet David Barclay Moore 9781524701246 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of h...
Tram 83
Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila 9781941920046 Fiction Deep Vellum Publishing Deep Vellum Publishing WINNER OF THE ETISALAT PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 201...
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems Taylor Byas 9781593767419 Poetry Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award Winner of the Ohioana Book Awa...
A Gathering of Mother Tongues
A Gathering of Mother Tongues Jacqueline Johnson 9781877727795 Poetry White Pine Press White Pine Press Third winner of the annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Selected by renowned Native American p...
Nigeria Jones
Nigeria Jones Ibi Zoboi 9780062888846 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins From Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and co-author of Punching the Air, comes a bol...
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Harriet A. Washington 9780767915472 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House National...