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Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones
Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones Biyi Bandele 9780413771810 Fiction Berg 3Pl Berg Publishers Two plays by one of Britain’s most prolific young...
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart Zetta Elliott 9780374307417 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Today Show Best Book for the Holidays NCTE ...
Cooking with the Birthday Bird
Cooking with the Birthday Bird Glenda Armand 9780593569146 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The Birthday Bird—star of the beloved Dr. Seuss classic Happy Birthday to Y...
The Witch’s Apprentice (Dragons in a Bag #3)
The Witch’s Apprentice (Dragons in a Bag #3) Zetta Elliott 9780593427705 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Zetta Elliott wants Black children today to see themselves in...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country Amanda Gorman 9780593465271 Poetry Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A special edition of the poem The Hill We Climb, read at the...
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott 9780812986945 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “Destined to become one of the classics of the genre” (Newsweek)...
American Phoenix: poems
American Phoenix: poems Zetta Elliott 9798656203630 Poetry Independently Published Independently Published American Phoenix, the second collection of poetry by award-winning author Zetta Elliott, exte...
A Song for Juneteenth
A Song for Juneteenth Zetta Elliott 9780316575133 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This emotional and lyrical picture book by acclaimed poet Zetta Elliott celebrates t...
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 Ian K. Smith 9780063253766 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature o...
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 Ian K. Smith 9780063253759 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature o...
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own Robert Lee Brewer 9780692317464 Poetry Words Dance Publishing Words Dance Publishing This ...
Ready? Set. Birthday!
Ready? Set. Birthday! Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780593563717 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This Step 2 early reader captures all the excitement and anticipation that ...
Great Birthday Surprise!
Great Birthday Surprise! Tanya Wright 9781464243875 Fiction Sourcebooks Young Readers Sourcebooks Hip, hip, hooray! It’s Hairiette’s Birthday! With her glowy hair done and the perfect dress picked ...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328262 Fiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? So does Amiri’s family, and...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328279 Nonfiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? Well, so does Amiri’s fa...
The Old Man In The Club (Zane Presents)
The Old Man In The Club (Zane Presents) Curtis Bunn 9781593095727 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. He’s the “old guy in the club” who everyone judges and scorns, but there’s so much more t...
Makeda Makes a Birthday Treat
Makeda Makes a Birthday Treat Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780063217263 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins The first title in a delightful new Level 2 I Can Read! series from acclaimed a...
What Makes You Happy?
What Makes You Happy? Nedra Glover Tawwab 9780593620250 Fiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House By the influential relationship therapist and bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, th...
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...
Somebody’s Child
Somebody’s Child Dennis A. Williams 9780684827131 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Somebody’s Child is the searing and achingly poignant story of African American brothers and fathers, ...
The Birthday Bid: Distinguished Gentlemen Series
The Birthday Bid: Distinguished Gentlemen Series Suzette D. Harrison 9781733721714 Fiction SDH Books SDH Books It’s blackmail, blindfolds, and her fortieth birthday. How else would beauty influencer, ...
Say Her Name
Say Her Name Zetta Elliott 9781368045247 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victi...
A Wish After Midnight
A Wish After Midnight Zetta Elliott 9780982555057 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing “Although there is plenty of history embedded in the novel, A Wish After Midnight is written with a lyrical grace t...
Three Plays
Three Plays Zetta Elliott 9781441486219 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press CONNOR’S BOY: Connor, a successful artist and transracial adoptee, commits suicide after being accused of abusing his belov...
Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life
Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life Ian K. Smith 9780312606350 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Happiness isn’t the too-brief rush that comes from getting something you’v...
Rambunctious Kwame And the Case of The Missing Birthday Banku
Rambunctious Kwame And the Case of The Missing Birthday Banku Bernard Mensah 9781838135300 Fiction Haberman + Nerds Press Haberman + Nerds Press Kwame is a boisterous 5-year-old with a huge appetite f...
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) Nancy Johnson James 9781951836535 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A poetic picture book biography a...
Big Sister Coco 1: The Birthday Surprise
Big Sister Coco 1: The Birthday Surprise Jesse Byrd 9781223187075 Fiction Paw Prints Publishing Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Big Sister Coco is sassy and smart, and she absolutely adores her litt...
Sydney Sunshine and the Big Birthday Bash (Volume 3)
Sydney Sunshine and the Big Birthday Bash (Volume 3) Sydney McGee 9780984688968 Fiction Visible Works Publishing Visible Works Publishing Sydney Sunshine is turning ten years old. She has been dreamin...
Princess Arabella’s Birthday
Princess Arabella’s Birthday Mylo Freeman 9781911115373 Fiction Cassava Republic Press Cassava Republic Press "These lovely new picture books are vibrant with color and character, and Arabella’s adven...
Nikki and Deja Birthday Blues
Nikki and Deja Birthday Blues Karen English 9780547248936 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The second book about Nikki and Deja, two African American third-grade girls who...
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...
I Love Snow!
I Love Snow! Zetta Elliott 9781514348475 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press I love snow! spinning, swirling, swooshing snow crunch beneath my boots snow tickling my tongue snow I love snow! This sho...
At the Touch of Love
At the Touch of Love Sierra Kay 9780984847792 Fiction The Vega Group The Vega Group Best friends Echo and Telia are really experiencing some "interesting" times. Echo received a call on h...
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Maya Angelou 9780593518618 Poetry Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all fait...
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
Inheritance: A Visual Poem Elizabeth Acevedo 9780062931948 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins They tell me to “fix” my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do...
101 Ways To Love My Wife
101 Ways To Love My Wife Hasani Pettiford 9781494933074 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Happily married couples live longer and healthier lives by building intimacy and reinforcing the...
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs Kevin Powell 9798218824440 Poetry Get Fresh Books Publishing Get Fresh Books Publishing “Kevin Powell is one of this country’s most poignant literary voices. Pow...
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy Robin Coste Lewis 9781524732608 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings Alice Walker 9781400061631 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker ...
Patrick and the Not So Perfect Party
Patrick and the Not So Perfect Party Anne Wynter 9781499814460 Fiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Patrick wants for his birthday is a flawless FOOD party. So why does Karter arrive dr...
Dork Diaries 13: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday
Dork Diaries 13: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday Rachel Renée Russell 9781534426382 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. Nikki Maxwell’s adventures continue in the thirteenth installment in the b...
I’m Growing Great
I’m Growing Great Mechal Renee Roe 9780593428900 Fiction Doubleday Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Confident, empowered girls are celebrated in this follow-up to Happy Hair, a flower-fill...
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters Morgan Harper Nichols 9781979990523 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “For over a decade, many of the stories and poems I have written eventually turned into so...
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9780252086038 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Includes 25 Black & Wh...
What Is Hip-Hop?
What Is Hip-Hop? Eric Morse 9781617755842 Nonfiction Black Sheep Akashic Books Included in Publishers Weekly’s Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 featureMorse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highligh...
Track Three
Track Three John Gibson 9781610092173 Fiction Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press In I Come along for the ride when a popular and top-rated investigative journalist, Elliott Lawder, and Katherine Lambert, a...
Black Nationalism in America
Black Nationalism in America John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick 9780672512414 Nonfiction Bobbs-Merrill Bobbs-Merrill Black Nationalism in America covers a wide range of topics rela...
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...
Dragons in a Bag (Dragons in a Bag #1)
Dragons in a Bag (Dragons in a Bag #1) Zetta Elliott 9781524770457 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The dragon’s out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy fr...
He Loves Me, He Loves You Not PT 3
He Loves Me, He Loves You Not PT 3 Mychea 9780996060950 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Phylicia hits the ground running in this highly anticipated sequel to He Loves Me, He Loves you No...
Ship Of Souls
Ship Of Souls Zetta Elliott 9781612182681 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, a...
The Ski Mask Way (G Unit)
The Ski Mask Way (G Unit) K. Elliott 9781416531012 Fiction Gallery Books/G-Unit Simon & Schuster, Inc. HARD LIFE. HARD LUCK. HARD DRUGS. HARD DEALS. HARD TIME. Back in New York City, Seven was the ...
Street Fame
Street Fame K. Elliott 9780971769724 Fiction Urban Lifestyle Press Urban Lifestyle Press There’s a lot going on from Charlotte to Miami to San Francisco — almost none of it favorable to Tommy ’Fatboy’...
Wings
Wings Christopher Myers 9780590033770 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “…shows a vulnerable boy defended by a Black girl who admires rather than mocks his difference. The collage illustrations a...
The Happy Marriage
The Happy Marriage Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781612194653 Fiction Melville House Melville House “Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco’s greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and...
Hearts on the Fly
Hearts on the Fly Toni Shiloh 9780764245206 Fiction Bethany House Baker Publishing Group When the game changes, love finds a way to score. Jabari Hall has spent his entire life chasing vi...
Dayshaun’s Gift
Dayshaun’s Gift Zetta Elliott 9781515008354 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Summer vacation has just begun and Dayshaun wants to spend Saturday morning playing his new video game. But Dayshaun’s m...
One-Act Plays
One-Act Plays Zetta Elliott 9781448639083 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press girl/power: While in the custody of Child Protective Services, two underage girls compare their relationships with the me...
The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (Harlem Moon Classics)
The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (Harlem Moon Classics) Paul Laurence Dunbar 9780767919814 Fiction Harlem Moon Penguin Random House A historic collection of perceptive tales from a l...
A Birthday Cake for George Washington
A Birthday Cake for George Washington Ramin Ganeshram 9780545538237 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Everyone is buzzing about the president’s birthday! Especially George Washington’s servants...
The Enchanted Bridge
The Enchanted Bridge Zetta Elliott 9780593427743 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Getting three baby dragons back home was just the beginning. Now Jaxon is on a mission to help all magical cre...
Fox & Crow: A Christmas Tale
Fox & Crow: A Christmas Tale Zetta Elliott 9781502520241 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Fox and Crow are old friends who enjoy trying to outsmart one another. One winter evening, mischievous Crow...
Max Loves Muñecas!
Max Loves Muñecas! Zetta Elliott 9781497332027 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Max wants to visit a beautiful boutique that sells dresses and dolls, but worries that other children will tea...
Room In My Heart
Room In My Heart Zetta Elliott 9781500908232 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press t took some time for Nikki to adjust to her parents’ divorce, but now she and her little sister Natalie enjoy their new...
One Eye Open
One Eye Open Zetta Elliott 9781461079897 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press More than anything, Nina Traymore wants stability in her life. After graduating from college, Nina returns to New York City...
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...
Gone Away
Gone Away Mervyn Taylor 9781881523000 Poetry Junction Press Junction Press The latest [2006] collection from Mervyn Taylor offers up his familiar blend of the ancestral and the immediate, the natural ...
The Dragon Thief (Dragons in a Bag #2)
The Dragon Thief (Dragons in a Bag #2) Zetta Elliott 9781524770495 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Stealing a baby dragon was easy! Hiding it is a little more complic...
The Boy in the Bubble
The Boy in the Bubble Zetta Elliott 9781497444782 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press A mysterious boy from another planet chooses an unusual girl as his guide on Earth. Both children lead solitary li...
Entangled
Entangled K. Elliott 9780971769700 Fiction Urban Lifestyle Press Urban Lifestyle Press Unprotected Sex, Murder, Disloyalty and Payoffs all included in this street-life thriller. Entangled is a Love St...
Tar Beach
Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 9780517885444 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile/quilt. She incorporated Africa...
Tar Beach (Hardcover)
Tar Beach (Hardcover) Faith Ringgold 9780517580301 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile...
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem Ben Okri 9781635422900 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winni...
Be Holding: A Poem
Be Holding: A Poem Ross Gay 9780822966234 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein AwardWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry Be Holding i...
The Venus Hottentot: Poems
The Venus Hottentot: Poems Elizabeth Alexander 9781555973926 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Elizabeth Alexander’s highly praised first collection is available once againI didn’t want to write a ...
Dragons in a Bag
Dragons in a Bag Zetta Elliott 9780593897218 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House
Melena’s Jubilee: The Story of a Fresh Start
Melena’s Jubilee: The Story of a Fresh Start Zetta Elliott 9780884485605 Fiction Tilbury House Publishers Tilbury House Publishers Named to Bank Street College of Education’s prestigious 2016 Best Chi...
Dragons in a Bag
Dragons in a Bag Zetta Elliott 9781524770488 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House
A Max le gustan las munecas
A Max le gustan las munecas Zetta Elliott 9781519748348 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Max desea visitar una hermosa boutique donde venden vestidos y muñecas, pero le preocupa que otros niños se ...
Let the Faithful Come
Let the Faithful Come Zetta Elliott 9781516892495 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press When a bright star shines on a dark, silent night, let the faithful come. This lyrical retelling of the tradition...
A Wave Came Through Our Window
A Wave Came Through Our Window Zetta Elliott 9781515033523 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Two sisters find a way to endure the hot summer nights by savoring the scents and sounds carried into the...
An Angel for Mariqua
An Angel for Mariqua Zetta Elliott 9781478288213 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Christmas is coming, but eight-year-old Mariqua Thatcher isn’t looking forward to the holidays. Mama’s gone and Gra...
The Last Bunny in Brooklyn
The Last Bunny in Brooklyn Zetta Elliott 9781500870416 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Chloe isn’t a social bunny, but she enjoys her solitary life in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As autumn approa...
The Girl Who Swallowed the Sun
The Girl Who Swallowed the Sun Zetta Elliott 9781499606089 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press On the outside, Zoe looks like an ordinary little girl, but her father knows just how special she is insi...
The Magic Mirror
The Magic Mirror Zetta Elliott 9781497364714 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press When a boy at school hurts Kamara’s feelings, she goes home and asks her grandmother if the mean words are really true....
The Phoenix on Barkley Street
The Phoenix on Barkley Street Zetta Elliott 9781500589400 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Best friends Carlos and Tariq love their block, but Barkley Street has started to change. The playground h...
The Deep
The Deep Zetta Elliott 9781492902119 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press THE DEEP plunges readers into a dangerous, underground world policed by members of The League, a secret group of women and men ...
Stranger In The Family
Stranger In The Family Zetta Elliott 9781441476432 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Stranger in the Family is a mixed-media memoir that examines the shifting terrain upon which we negotiate race, k...
Ten-Minute Plays
Ten-Minute Plays Zetta Elliott 9781441486271 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press STASH: Charity, a young woman is accused of killing and castrating her abusive father. QUALITY: Two white women do la...
Amanda Gorman: Poet and Activist
Amanda Gorman: Poet and Activist L’Oreal Thompson Payton 9780593815144 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Learn all about Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet i...
Corduroy Makes a Cake
Corduroy Makes a Cake Allan Eitzen 9780593432525 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Corduroy was first introduced to readers in 1968 and soon became a classic character....
My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans
My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans Yolanda T. Marshall 9781771055680 Fiction Chalkboard Publishing Chalkboard Publishing As Anne’s birthday drew close, her friends prepared a soc...
Two Speckled Eggs
Two Speckled Eggs Jennifer K. Mann 9780763661687 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press A birthday party sets the scene in this sweet and relatable story for anyone who’s ever been the odd girl out...
Courtney’s Birthday Party
Courtney’s Birthday Party Loretta Long 9780940975835 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Courtney is very excited. Her seventh birthday is only a few days away, and her mother has planned a spec...
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Maya Angelou 9781400065585 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of ...
My Wife’s Baby: I am not a murderer
My Wife’s Baby: I am not a murderer R.M. Johnson 9780989511438 Fiction Marcusarts LLC Marcusarts LLC Does the love for a wife and the jealousy of an infant, warrant murder? After ten years of bad dat...
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem Mitchell L.H. Douglas 9781597091404 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press In the tradition of the Langton Hughes classic Montage of a Dream Deferred, Mitchell L. H. Dou...
Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9780711270718 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little P...