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This Opening Sky
This Opening Sky Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781638192152 Fiction Milk + Cookies Bushel & Peck Books Historical fiction at its finest! A sweet and sensitive, accessible middle grade n...
This Opening Sky Trailer by Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman
This Opening Sky Trailer by Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman Author Interviews Learn more at: https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9781638192152
Love Like Sky
Love Like Sky Leslie C. Youngblood 9781368016506 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide “Love ain’t like that.” “How is it then?” Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me. “It...
If This World Were Mine
If This World Were Mine Arriel Vinson 9780593858646 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A dazzling and heartfelt YA novel in verse by Coretta Scott King/John Stepto...
Blue Sky Press
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Sky Pie Publishing
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Blue Sky Press
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Sky Pie Publishing
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Excuse Me as I Kiss the Sky
Excuse Me as I Kiss the Sky Rudy Francisco 9781638340775 Poetry Button Poetry Button Poetry Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With every boo...
Shadow Valley
Shadow Valley Steven Barnes 9780345459039 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey In Great Sky Woman, “daringly epic in scope,” (Publishers Weekly), Steven Barnes’s Great Sky Woman unveiled the world of a prehistoric...
Black and Ugly
Black and Ugly Thumper Book Review Shocked?! You should be. I know I am. Before any of you say anything, I admit that I am somewhat surprised to be reading T. Styles latest novel, Black and U...
Starchild: My Life Under the Night Sky
Starchild: My Life Under the Night Sky Maggie Aderin-Pocock B0FH64KN79 Nonfiction BBC Digital BBC Studios Distribution From a childhood in Camden to the frontiers of space, an inspirational memoir...
Day Pulls Down the Sky / A Filament in Gold Leaf
Day Pulls Down the Sky / A Filament in Gold Leaf Asiya Wadud 9781733927109 Poetry Belladonna* Belladonna* This book, DAY PULLS DOWN THE SKY / A FILAMENT IN GOLD LEAF is comprised of Okwui Okpokwasili’...
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa Alexis Okeowo 9780316382922 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group One of the 50 Best Books of Literary J...
The Sky Is Not The Limit: Adventures Of An Urban Astrophysicist
The Sky Is Not The Limit: Adventures Of An Urban Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781591021889 Nonfiction Prometheus Books Prometheus Books This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s life...
A Little Piece of Sky
A Little Piece of Sky Nicole Bailey-Williams 9780767912167 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of The House on Mango Street with uniqu...
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Thumper Book Review The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow is the most remarkable debut novel that I have read in years! The small novel about a young girl...
Blue Opening: Poems
Blue Opening: Poems Chet’la Sebree 9781963108460 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books Blue Opening, Chet’la Sebree’s brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins—of illness, of l...
A Wish for Lily
A Wish for Lily Bea Jackson 9781665984010 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. Willow takes her fairy friends to see the ocean in this second chapter book in the Fairies Welcome series f...
American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein 9780593323984 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin ...
Kicks in the Sky
Kicks in the Sky C. G. Esperanza 9780062976239 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Pura Belpré Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner C. G. Esperanza delivers color, rhythm, and style in thi...
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel Kwame Mbalia 9781368075008 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents The talented team of Robert Venditti an...
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler Lynell George 9781626400634 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press Check out Lynell’s New York Times article on Octavia Butler “...
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky Kwame Mbalia 9781368039932 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Hen...
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories Lesley Nneka Arimah 9780735211025 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREEFINALIST FOR THE 2017...
A Tiny Piece of Sky
A Tiny Piece of Sky Shawn K. Stout 9780399173431 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House THE SUMMER STORY OF THREE SISTERS, ONE RESTUARANT, AND A (POSSIBLE) GERMAN SPYWorld War II is coming in Eur...
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 9780316527194 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group This collectable boxed set edition includes all three bo...
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky Heidi W. Durrow 9781851687459 Fiction One World Penguin Random House A bizarre mystery surrounding a family tragedy forms the centrepiece of this atmospheric story of a ...
Great Sky Woman
Great Sky Woman Steven Barnes 9780345459022 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey The epic story of how primitive humans, without words or machines, set in motion civilization’s long, winding journey to the present...
Anansi Does the Impossible: An Ashanti Tale (Reprint)
Anansi Does the Impossible: An Ashanti Tale (Reprint) Verna Aardema 9780689839337 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. Long ago, when the earth was set down and the sky was lifted up, all...
Spider and the Sky God: An Akan Legend
Spider and the Sky God: An Akan Legend Debbi Chocolate 9780816728114 Fiction Troll Communications Troll Communications Ananse the spider must meet Sky God’s challenge and prove that he can spin tales ...
Angela Dalton
Angela Dalton NONE Angela Dalton, former video game producer turned award-winning author, is known for her children's books, including 'If You Look Up to the Sky'. Living in Oakland, California, she ...
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic Kevin M. Weeks Article The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic ’Never Say Die; Be Optimis...
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama Ashley Woodfolk 9781250240378 Nonfiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers Inspired by the life and quotations of ...
13th National Black Writers Conference Opening Night Program
13th National Black Writers Conference Opening Night Program Literary Events Participants included Dr. Brenda Greene (https://aalbc.it/brendag), Rowan Ricardo Phillips (https://aalbc.it/rowanrp), Afaa...
Provocateurs: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Photographers & Writers opening
Provocateurs: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Photographers & Writers opening Medgar Evers College, CUNY Brooklyn New York Opening Reception: March 28, 2016 @ The Charles Evans Innis Memorial Lib...
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 ...
The Blue Sky Press
The Blue Sky Press Scholastic Inc. Scholastic Inc.
Sky Pony
Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing
Call of the Dragon
Call of the Dragon Natasha Bowen 9780593898154 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In the first book of a new series inspired by African mythology, dragon gods rule the e...
Sky Full of Elephants
Sky Full of Elephants Cebo Campbell 9781668034934 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this “bold and imaginative” (Tananarive Due) “truly powerful and riveting story” (Booklist) set in ...
Split the Sky
Split the Sky Marie Arnold 9780316582872 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this haunting story about family, legacy, and sacrifice, a young Black girl living in ...
One Big Open Sky
One Big Open Sky Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823460625 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them free—or cost them everything they ...
Battle for Sky Kingdom (Future Hero #4)
Battle for Sky Kingdom (Future Hero #4) Remi Blackwood 9781338790450 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Jarell’s adventures continue in this exciting fourth installment of Future Hero! Unlike...
All the Blues in the Sky
All the Blues in the Sky Renée Watson 9781547605897 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendsh...
A Breathless Sky
A Breathless Sky Veronica G. Henry 9781662520280 Fiction 47North Amazon Publishing The impending destruction of a forest triggers a battle between two siblings, and nature and humankind, in a gripping...
Sky Full of Elephants
Sky Full of Elephants Cebo Campbell 9781668034927 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black? One day, a cataclysmic event occurs...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
The Splinter in the Sky
The Splinter in the Sky Kemi Ashing-Giwa 9781668008478 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. A USA Today Bestseller A “breathtaking space opera” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about a youn...
Even If the Sky Is Falling
Even If the Sky Is Falling Taj McCoy 9781335452559 Fiction Canary Street Press HarperCollins Includes a special introduction by USA TODAY bestselling author, Mia Sosa, author of The Worst Best Man and...
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel Kwame Mbalia 9781368072809 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents The best-selling and awarding-winning novel about a Black boy...
Stella Keeps the Sun Up
Stella Keeps the Sun Up Clothilde Ewing 9781534487857 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this incandescently fun, hijinks-filled picture book, a young girl schemes to keep the sun ...
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 9781984894366 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Discover a world of ...
Spirituality, Racism, and the Phantom: Tranquil Skies; The Mystique of Flight
Spirituality, Racism, and the Phantom: Tranquil Skies; The Mystique of Flight James T. Hollin, Jr. 9781636613987 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing These memoirs and accounts present b...
Sky Watcher #5
Sky Watcher #5 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593226469 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Jada Jones is back for the fifth book of this popular, celebrated series perfect for STEM fans! Readers ...
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Brandy Colbert 9780063056664 Nonfiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning ...
Chlorine Sky
Chlorine Sky Mahogany L. Browne 9780593176399 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former ...
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1 Kwame Mbalia 9781368042413 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents
My Rainy Day Rocket Ship
My Rainy Day Rocket Ship Markette Sheppard 9781534461772 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Rainy summer days are no match for a little astronaut who builds the perfect rocket ship fo...
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Tonya Bolden 9781338262049 Nonfiction Scholastic Nonfiction Scholastic Inc. This is a story about America during and...
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame Lynell George 9781626400535 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a bluepr...
Beneath the Darkest Sky
Beneath the Darkest Sky Jason Overstreet 9781496701787 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest s...
A Sky Full of Stars
A Sky Full of Stars Linda Williams Jackson 9780544800656 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt After the murder of Emmett Till, thirteen-year-old Rose is struggling with her de...
If You Look Up to the Sky
If You Look Up to the Sky Angela Dalton 9781592988280 Fiction Beaver’s Pond Press Beaver’s Pond Press
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...
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...
My Hair is Fuzzy My Hair is Cute
My Hair is Fuzzy My Hair is Cute Toni Winston 9780692391402 Fiction Sky Pie Publishing Sky Pie Publishing My Hair is Fuzzy, My Hair is Cute tells us all that no matter the length, shape or texture of ...
Under a Painted Sky
Under a Painted Sky Stacey Lee 9780399168031 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be aprofessional musi...
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!)
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!) C. G. Esperanza 9781629146249 Fiction Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing Splish! Splash! Sploosh! A little girl is about to discover the wonders of mixing color...
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 Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays
The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays Rupert Roopnaraine 9781845231613 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In these essays, Rupert Roopnarainewho has been called a Caribbean Hazlittdisplays his...
Congo: Spirit of Darkness (Volume 1)
Congo: Spirit of Darkness (Volume 1) Mayi Ngwala and Allain Ngwala 9780984666300 Fiction Genet Press Genet Press NAACP Image Awards nominated for Outstanding Literary Work. On the smooth, cool rock L...
Kiss the Sky: A Novel
Kiss the Sky: A Novel Farai Chideya 9781416585954 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. From nationally acclaimed political commentator and multimedia personality Farai Chideya comes ...
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Book 1 The Inheritance Trilogy)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Book 1 The Inheritance Trilogy) N. K. Jemisin 9780316043915 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group In this brilliantly original debut fantasy, a young woman becomes ent...
Little Cloud and Lady Wind
Little Cloud and Lady Wind Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416985235 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. Th...
With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians
With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians Nancy Plain 9781602019850 Fiction Mondo Publishing Mondo Publishing
Great Sky Woman: A Novel
Great Sky Woman: A Novel Steven Barnes 9780345459008 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Thirty thousand years ago, in the heart of the African continent and in the shadow of the largest...
Bruh Rabbit And The Tar Baby Girl
Bruh Rabbit And The Tar Baby Girl Virginia Hamilton 9780590473767 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press Esteemed author Virginia Hamilton retells the classic trickster tale of Bruh Rabbit and the Tar ...
Bluish
Bluish Virginia Hamilton 9780439367868 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press In this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people fa...
Those Building Men
Those Building Men Angela Johnson 9780590665216 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press Recalls the unheralded men whose labors served to build the canals, roads, railroads, bridges, and towering buildi...
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales Virginia Hamilton 9780590473705 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press
I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky
I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky June Jordan 9780684804224 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Combining her talents and mixed elements of drama, poetry, and song, ...
Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt John Anthony West 9780835606912 Nonfiction Quest Books Theosophical Publishing House John Anthony West’s revolutionary reinterpretation of the civi...
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad In The Sky
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad In The Sky Faith Ringgold 9780517885437 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books
Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky
Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky Julius Lester 9781559700597 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing The author recounts his political and spiritual odyssey during the past ten years, discuss...
Brown Sky
Brown Sky David Covin 9780910671118 Fiction Path Press Path Press Covin's debut novel, focusing on an all-black platoon stationed in Arkansas during World War II.
Only Dark Spot in the Sky
Only Dark Spot in the Sky Rita Dove 9789991666624 Poetry Bookslinger Bookslinger
Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber
Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber MULTIPLE Dr. Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. “Sky” Traughber are renowned authors with substantial contributions in their respective fields. Dr. Loga...
Nicole Bailey-Williams
Nicole Bailey-Williams NONE Nicole Bailey-Williams is a Philadelphia-born educator, author, and radio personality. A graduate of Hampton and Temple University, she pioneered “The Literary Review” on ...
Leslie C. Youngblood
Leslie C. Youngblood NONE Author Leslie C. Youngblood, MFA holder from UNC Greensboro, is a recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize. As of 2018, she tea...
Kenya Hunt
Kenya Hunt NONE Kenya Hunt, Fashion Director at Grazia UK, has a vast career in media, working with top women's titles in the US and UK. An accomplished writer, her work is featured in various public...
Cebo Campbell
Cebo Campbell NONE Cebo Campbell is an award-winning author, poet, and creative director based in Brooklyn, NY. Known for his distinctive voice in contemporary literature, he's also the co-founder an...
Sulwe
Sulwe Shafika Burke Book Review Do our young black girls have enough willpower to face whatever life throws at them? Do they look at themselves and see beauty, or the lack of? Have we successfully co...
Avatar The High Ground Volume 3
Avatar The High Ground Volume 3 Sherri L. Smith 9781506709116 Fiction Dark Horse Books Dark Horse Books Jake Sully’s fears have come crashing to Pandora, guns blazing. The Sky People are planet-side, ...
Orange Mint And Honey: A Novel
Orange Mint And Honey: A Novel Carleen Brice 9780345499066 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House “A wonderful, jazzy, exciting read.”–Nikki Giovanni, author of AcolytesBroke and burned-out...
changing, changing: story and collages
changing, changing: story and collages Aracelis Girmay 9780807615539 Fiction George Braziller George Braziller Inc. “Once there was a boy. And once there was a girl.” So begins this story of metamo...
Righteous Riches
Righteous Riches Kam Williams Book Review "The congregation is loud and excited. They are expecting to profit from the insights shared by their speaker, and he does not disappoint. Upon conclud...
The Bookshop Sisterhood
The Bookshop Sisterhood Michelle Lindo-Rice 9780778310389 Fiction Mira Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through. After years of hard ...
Futureland: Battle for the Park
Futureland: Battle for the Park H.D. Hunter 9780593479452 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House When an extraordinary flying theme park arrives above Atlanta, one boy must stop a ...
Cecilia Vicuna Word Weapons
Cecilia Vicuna Word Weapons Cecilia Vicuna 9798986781204 Nonfiction CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts At once poetry, art and activism, Vicuñ...