Preschool Books

Ordinary People Change the World: I am Jackie Robinson
By Brad Meltzer

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
By Barack Obama

This is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
By Jacqueline Woodson

I Am Rosa Parks
By Brad Meltzer

I, Too, Am America
By Langston Hughes

Trombone Shorty
By Troy Andrews

Hair Love
By Matthew A. Cherry

A Poem for Peter
By Andrea Davis Pinkney

Mae Among the Stars
By Roda Ahmed

Dream Big, Little One
By Vashti Harrison

Nelson Mandela
By Kadir Nelson

Thank You Omu!
By Oge Mora

Middle & High School Books

Through My Eyes
By Ruby Bridges

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
By Harriette Gillem Robinet

Portraits of African-American Heroes
By Tonya Bolden

The Watson go to Birmingham - 1963
By Christopher Paul Curtis

Promises to Keep
By Sharon Robinson

Heart and Soul
By Kadir Nelson

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
By Walter Deam Myers

Brown Girl Dreaming
By Jacqueline Woodson

The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas

Long Way Down
By Jason Reynolds

The Belles
By Dhonielle Clayton

Elementary School Books

Henry’s Freedom Box
By Jane Addams Peace

Five Brave Explorers
By Wade Hudson

Five Notable Inventors
By Wade Hudson

Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride
By Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney

28 Days
By Charles R. Smith, Jr.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

The Mighty Miss Malone
By Christopher Paul Curtis

March On!
By Christine King Farris

The Hero Two Doors Down
By Sharon Robinson

Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
By Deloris Jordan

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
By Vashti Harrison

Young, Gifted, and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes From Past and Present
By Jamia Wilson

Dear Martin
By Nic Stone

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Monster
By Walter Dean Myers

March: Book One
By John Lewis

Piecing Me Together
By Renee Watson

You Don’t Even Know Me
By Sharon Flake

Turning Fifteen on the Road to Freedom
By Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Who Put This Song On? 
By Morgan Parker

Children of Blood and Bone
By Tomi Adeyemi

One Last Word: Wisdom From the Harlem Renaissance
By Nikki Grimes

Genesis Begins Again
By Alicia D. Williams