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Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story
Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story Rita Lorraine Hubbard 9781600609695 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Born into slavery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, William "Bill" Lewis learned ...
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee! Andrea J. Loney 9781620142608 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books James Van Der Zee was just a young boy when he saved enough money to buy his first cam...
The Three Lucys
The Three Lucys Hayan Charara 9781600609985 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Luli likes to sit in the shade of an olive tree with his beloved cats: Lucy the Fat, Lucy the Skinny, and Lucy Lucy....
Janna And The Kings
Janna And The Kings Patricia Smith 9781584300885 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Saturdays are special for Janna. That’s when she and Granddaddy spend the whole day together.Walking down the s...
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw Don Tate 9781600602603 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Growing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all...
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration Spike Lee 9781636810133 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collecti...
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage Lee Bennett Hopkins 9781620143117 Poetry Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From the joyous to the poignant, poems by award-winning, diverse poets are paired wi...
Black All Around
Black All Around Patricia Hubbell 9781600606434 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A young girl discovers all the wonderful and beautiful things around her that are black. Look high, look low...
Pamela M. Tuck and Joel Tuck
Pamela M. Tuck and Joel Tuck MULTIPLE Pamela and Joel Tuck are a writing duo specializing in children's literature. Pamela, a Greenville native, began her career with poetry, expanding into short sto...
Bottle Tops: The Art of El Anatsui
Bottle Tops: The Art of El Anatsui Alison Goldberg 9781620149669 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Editor’s Choice Books for Youth, Booklist Children’s Africana Book Awards, Howard Universit...
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm Katheryn Russell-Brown 9781620143469 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A picture biography of educator and politician Shirley Chisho...
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou Bethany Hegedus 9781620145876 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books NCSS Septima Clark Book Award Elementary Level Winner In celebrat...
Lend a Hand: Poems about Giving
Lend a Hand: Poems about Giving John Frank 9781620148297 Poetry Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A collection of original poems centered on giving and spontaneous acts of kindness, which also incorpora...
Fresh Juice
Fresh Juice Robert Liu-Trujillo 9781643791135 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books What makes a great juice that keeps everyone healthy? Art and his dad discover it takes carrots … collards … cayen...
Breaking to the Beat!
Breaking to the Beat! Linda J. Acevedo 9781643796390 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A boogie-down picture book about a shy boy named Manolo who overcomes his fears and insecurities to become ...
Stacey Abrams: Lift Every Voice
Stacey Abrams: Lift Every Voice Sarah Warren 9781643794976 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Skipping Stones Honor Award, Skipping Stones Magazine How do we move our country forward? Stace...
Magic Like That
Magic Like That Samara Cole Doyon 9781643790701 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books In this celebration of Black Girl Magic, a young girl finds confidence and excitement in the versatility of her ...
The Electric Slide and Kai
The Electric Slide and Kai Kelly J. Baptist 9781643790527 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Kai is the only member of his family who can’t get the dance steps to the Electric Slide right. But Ka...
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon Kelly Starling Lyons 9781620149553 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Philip Freelon’s grandfather was an acclaimed painter of the Harlem R...
The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge
The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge Glenda Armand 9781643790084 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books This new entry in the innovative “Story” line of chapter-book biographies features I...
The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Kathleen Benson 9781620148549 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books This new entry in the innovative “Story” li...
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School Janet Halfmann 9781620141632 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Born into slavery around 1821 in Petersburg, Virginia, Lilly Ann Gr...
Music Time
Music Time Gwendolyn Hooks 9781620143438 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Henry dreams of becoming a rock star drummer and practices at home whenever he can. One day while Henry is drumming, h...
Block Party
Block Party Gwendolyn Hooks 9781620143414 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The neighborhood is having a block party where everyone is responsible for bringing a food dish. Padma is excited abo...
Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony
Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony Richard Sobol 9781600604508 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books On the morning of September 11, 2001, J. J. Keki, a Ugandan music...
Calling the Water Drum
Calling the Water Drum Latisha Redding 9781620141946 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Henri and his parents leave their homeland, Haiti, after they receive an invitation from an uncle to come t...
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness Donna Janell Bowman 9781620141489 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growin...
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas Gwendolyn Hooks 9781620141564 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Vivien Thomas’s greatest dream was to attend college to study medicine...
Love Twelve Miles Long
Love Twelve Miles Long Glenda Armand 9781620142547 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A moving story about young Frederick Douglass and his mother, who walks twelve miles at night from a nearby p...
Ira’s Shakespeare Dream
Ira’s Shakespeare Dream Glenda Armand 9781620141557 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Ira Aldridge dreamed of being on stage one day performing the great works of William Shakespeare. He spen...
Poems in the Attic
Poems in the Attic Nikki Grimes 9781620140277 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books During a visit to her grandma s house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mo...
Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank
Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank Paula Yoo 9781600606588 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Growing up in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus witnessed extreme poverty all around a...
Little Melba And Her Big Trombone
Little Melba And Her Big Trombone Katheryn Russell-Brown 9781600608988 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston, a pioneering twent...
Sacred Mountain: Everest
Sacred Mountain: Everest Christine Taylor Butler 9781620141618 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Mount Everest — a place of mystery, majesty, and unparalleled beauty — rises into the sky high...
King for a Day
King for a Day Rukhsana Khan 9781600606595 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Basant is here, with feasts and parties to celebrate the arrival of spring. But what Malik is looking forward to most...
Jazz Baby
Jazz Baby Carole Boston Weatherford 9781584300397 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Millions of children have put their hands together and recited the rhyme that begins "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, ...
As Fast As Words Could Fly
As Fast As Words Could Fly Pamela M. Tuck 9781600603488 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books ”A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to...
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children Davida Adedjouma 9781880000762 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Black is dark, dark is lovely, lovely is the palm of my heartand my ...
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and...
Baby Flo: Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage
Baby Flo: Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage Alan Schroeder 9781600604102 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A biography of Florence “Baby Flo” Mills, a talented singer/dancer of the Harlem Re...
Yummy: The Last Days Of A Southside Shorty
Yummy: The Last Days Of A Southside Shorty G. Neri 9781584302674 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-...
Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe
Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe Crystal Hubbard 9781620143162 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A picture book biography of tennis player Arthur Ashe, who began his career playing tenni...
Seeds Of Change: Planting A Path To Peace
Seeds Of Change: Planting A Path To Peace Jen Johnson 9781600603679 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A picture book biography of scientist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman—and first ...
In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage
In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage Alan Schroeder 9781600603327 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books As a young girl in Florida in the 1890s, Augusta enjoyed nothing more than pl...
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story Paula Yoo 9781600602597 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The true story of Chinese American film star Anna May Wong, whose trail-blazing career in Holly...
I And I Bob Marley
I And I Bob Marley Tony Medina 9781600602573 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Born in the Jamaican countryside in 1945, Bob Marley seemed special from birth. The curious, intuitive boy had a...
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson Eloise Greenfield 9781600602627 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books An updated and redesigned edition of an award-winning* biography of Paul Robeson, who overcame racial discrimina...
Christmas Makes Me Think
Christmas Makes Me Think Tony Medina 9781600603457 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A young African American boy reflects on the spirit of Christmas and thinks of ways he can share what he has ...
Bird
Bird Zetta Elliott 9781600602412 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books In this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he stru...
No Mush Today
No Mush Today Sally Derby Miller 9781600602382 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The sweet story a young girl who rebels against eating mushy cereal for breakfast every day by leaving her parent...
Chess Rumble
Chess Rumble G. Neri 9781584302797 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Three movesis all it takesto change the outcomeof the game.In Marcus’s world, battles are fought everyday—on the street, at h...
Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku Ellie Crowe 9781584302766 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Growing up in Honolulu with the Pacific Ocean as his backyard, Duke Kahanamoku l...
Celebremos Juneteenth (Spanish Edition)
Celebremos Juneteenth (Spanish Edition) Carole Boston Weatherford 9781600602474 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents’ hometown in Texas, but it do...
Juneteenth Jamboree
Juneteenth Jamboree Carole Boston Weatherford 9781600602481 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Joining her parents in a community celebration of Juneteenth, Cassie learns about the day when slave...
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer Bill Wise 9781584302698 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books On a Maine summer day in 1884, twelve-year-old Penobscot Indian Louis Sockalexis, ...
Babu’s Song
Babu’s Song Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen 9781600602757 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Bernardi loves to play soccer and would love to go to school too, but he and his grandfather, Babu, cannot affo...
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement Kathleen Benson 9781584302506 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books How does an Alabama sharecropper’s son grow up to help change his ...
Ray Charles en Espanol (Spanish Edition)
Ray Charles en Espanol (Spanish Edition) Sharon Bell Mathis 9781584302810 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books As a young boy he fell in love with music, and as a man, the world fell in love wit...
When The Horses Ride By: Children In The Times Of War
When The Horses Ride By: Children In The Times Of War Eloise Greenfield 9781600604546 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Wars have occurred throughout history, in all parts of the world, and t...
I See the Rhythm
I See the Rhythm Toyomi Igus 9780892392124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second boo...
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream Crystal Hubbard 9781600605727 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The spirited story of Marcenia Lyle, the African American girl wh...
The Jones Family Express
The Jones Family Express Javaka Steptoe 9781584302629 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Steven adores listening to stories about his Aunt Carolyn’s travels but has always been too young to go on...
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby Crystal Hubbard 9781600608919 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing’s all-time great jockeys and the last A...
Love to Langston
Love to Langston Tony Medina 9781584302834 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books This inspiring biography on Langston Hughes celebrates his life through poetry.
Brothers In Hope
Brothers In Hope Mary Williams 9781584302322 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Eight-year-old Garang is tending cattle far from his family’s home in southern Sudan when war comes to his villa
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path Joseph Bruchac 9781584301660 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From the day he was born, Jim Thorpe’s parents knew he was special. As the light shone on the road to t...
Coming to America: A Muslim Family’s Story
Coming to America: A Muslim Family’s Story Bernard Wolf 9781584301776 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books After four years of hard work and frugal living in New York, Hassan Mahmoud can affor...
Elizabeti’s School
Elizabeti’s School Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen 9781584300434 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books In the third entry in this popular series. Elizabeti is so excited about the first day of school she can...
Elizabeti’s Doll
Elizabeti’s Doll Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen 9781584300816 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her ...
Destiny’s Gift
Destiny’s Gift Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9781600606441 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Destiny loves words, and her favorite place in the world is Mrs. Wade’s bookstore, where words abound. On...
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Sharon Bell Mathis 9781584300182 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A beautiful new edition of this 1973 multiple, award-winning biography, young readers learn the, rags-to-riches ...
Mama Elizabeti
Mama Elizabeti Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen 9781584300021 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Elizabeti has a new baby sister. Now she has to take care of her brother, Obedi, and thinks she knows what t...
When You’re Ready: A Love Story
When You’re Ready: A Love Story Kareem Rosser 9781668030738 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. “This moving memoir explores how life and love rarely pan out the way we plan it…Beautifully...
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee MULTIPLE Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee are renowned figures in the entertainment industry, with significant contributions to film and literature. Their creative works ha...
Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low
Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 9780816677979 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon ...
Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key
Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key Tracy Occomy Crowder 9781643795171 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books New Visions Award Winner, Tu Books It’s 2008, and ten-year-old Montgomery "Monty" Carve...
Tiffany Golden
Tiffany Golden NONE Tiffany Golden is an award-winning author, illustrator, and teaching artist. She won the 2020 New Visions Award and the Judith Tannenbaum Teaching Artist Fellowship. A Spalding Un...
Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Rita Lorraine Hubbard NONE Rita Lorraine Hubbard is a renowned author of nonfiction books for adults and children, including the award-winning 'Hammering for Freedom'. She also manages the children's...
Dante Lee
Dante Lee 0000000081738541 Dante Lee, an award-winning business coach and best-selling author, is the CEO of Dante Lee International, a marketing and PR firm that specializes in reaching African Amer...
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3)
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3) David Anthony Durham 9781643797434 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books In the third installment in The Shadow Prince saga, Ash and his friends race against time...
The Longest Night in Egypt
The Longest Night in Egypt David Anthony Durham 9781643796093 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books The Shadow Prince saga continues as Ash and his heroic friends rush to save Ra from the belly of Apep and...
Speculation
Speculation Nisi Shawl 9781620149591 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books A wonderful middle-grade fantasy debut about Black families, family history, family curses … and a really marvelous pair of specta...
Black Was the Ink
Black Was the Ink Michelle Coles 9781643794310 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books Through the help of a ghostly ancestor, sixteen-year-old Malcolm is sent on a journey through Reconstruction-era America...
The Shadow Prince
The Shadow Prince David Anthony Durham 9781643794280 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books FIVE DEADLY TESTS, ONLY ONE SHADOW PRINCE In this middle grade solarpunk novel set in an alternate Egyptian uni...
I Am Alfonso Jones
I Am Alfonso Jones Tony Medina 9781620142639 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books Alfonso Jones can’t wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school’s hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. H...
Can I have a pet?
Can I have a pet? Gwendolyn Hooks 9781584308492 Fiction Bebop Books Lee & Low Books used book, childrens
Christy Hale
Christy Hale NONE Christy Hale is an award-winning children's book illustrator and art educator. Known for titles like 'Dreaming Up', she also educates young readers about artists via Instructor maga...
The Barber’s Cutting Edge
The Barber’s Cutting Edge Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert 9780892391967 Fiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books The Barber’s Cutting Edge is a touching celebration of the close relationship between a yo...
Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove
Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove Christy Hale 9780892394272 Fiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books The empowering true story of the 1931 Lemon Grov...
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Christine Taylor Butler 9780531212097 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white...
Planet Earth
Planet Earth Christine Taylor Butler 9780531253564 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Presents information about Earth, including its position, physical characteristics, rotation, and t...
Fish
Fish Christine Taylor Butler 9780531217528 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Presents general information about fish, including information about some of the species that make up the g...
Amphibians
Amphibians Christine Taylor Butler 9780531223352 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books From tiny, colorful tree frogs to the giant salamanders that burrow along the riverbanks of Japan, th...