Children & Young Adult

Based on the true story of the first African American NASCAR champion Wendell Scott, Born Driven is an uplifting tale celebrating the power of persistence and big dreams. Like many other boys, Wendell Scott had a big dream: to become a race car driver...

Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school's spring art show, until she ends up with the last two crayons ... By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how...

A Junior Library Guild Selection Meet Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer who revolutionized the video game industry, in this engaging picture book biography perfect for fans of Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions and Little...

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school's decades-old legend in The Changing Man, this debut Young Adult speculative thriller by Tomi Oyemakinde Face front. Watch your back. BE BRAVE. If it was left to her,...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Ella Fitzgerald! Having lost her mother at a young age, Ella...

Learn about the record-breaking gymnastics career and inspiring life of Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles in this book from the New York Times Best-Selling Who HQ series. In 2021, Simone Biles shocked the world when she pulled out of the Tokyo Olympic...

Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hidden in the woods. From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes another pulse-pounding novel perfect for fans of Supernatural and Lovecraft Country. Don't go...

New Kid meets The Baby-sitters Club in this graphic novel series opener about the Curlfriends, four inseparable Black girls who show us the meaning of true friendship--and being your true self. Charlie has a foolproof plan for the first day at her new...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic, hotly anticipated sequel to the instant bestseller The Gilded Ones about a girl with the power to remake her world--or destroy it. "Fans of Children of Blood and Bone, Mulan, and the Dora Milaje from Black...

New York Times bestselling illustrator Holly Hatam shows us what would happen if you met the Easter Bunny! This sweet and glittery board book is a perfect Easter basket stuffer! If you met the Easter Bunny, he'd tell you his real name. And he'd want to...

The Vanquishers are back and ready to defend their town against the undead in this spooky middle grade from New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron. Boog and her best friends, Cedrick, Jules, and Aaron--aka the Squad--stick together, no matter...

Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club!Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But...

This lyrical picture book is a beautiful, heart-opening ode to loved ones we've lost and a reminder that their love will carry on with us forever. Filled with stunning illustrations and uplifting text, this is an inspiring story for children and adults...

Full Metal Alchemist meets Vampire Diaries in this fun and clever dark academia series... High school is supposed to be about studying, socializing, and marching-band practice. Not fighting vampires. Then one night flipped my world inside out--now, my...

Perfect for fans of The Black Kids, Songs of Irie is a sweeping coming-of-age novel from Asha Bromfield about a friendship struggling to survive amidst the Jamaican civil unrest of the 1970s.It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of...

My brother is gone. My mom is too stuck in her own grief to see me, and my dad thinks pain isn't something to ever be discussed. Even my boyfriend has let me down over and over again. It feels like there is only one way forward, only one way out. Just...