Children & Young Adult

From Coretta Scott King Award-winning creator Ashley Bryan comes a luminously illustrated primer on celebrated African American poets, from A to Z. "And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely--I'll make me a world." --James...

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller about a wrongly accused teen desperate to recclaim both his innocence and his first love.   Life can change in an instant. When you're wrongfully...

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper middle grade series based on one of the Marvel Universe's break-out characters Shuri, from Black Panther!An original, upper-middle-grade series starring the break-out character from...

The picture book inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film The Green Book Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family's new car! In the early 1950s, few African Americans could afford to buy cars, so this would be an adventure. But she soon...

Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are?Do you know...

NAACP Image Award Winner, NAACP Lasting Connection Title, Book Links Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Top Ten Science and Health Books for Youth, BooklistThe life story of Vivien Thomas, an African American surgical technician who...

From the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award-Winning Series!This fun, laugh-out-loud early chapter book series follows lovable dog King and his human girl Kayla as they solve mysteries. From the Geisel Honor Award-winning team of Dori Hillestad Butler and...

From the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award-Winning SeriesKing & Kayla are back on the case!This fun, laugh-out-loud early chapter book series follows lovable dog King and his human girl Kayla as they solve mysteries. From the Geisel Honor Award-winning...

"With memorable characters and page-turning thrills, A Blade So Black is the fantasy book I've been waiting for my whole life. Alice is Black Girl Magic personified." --Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U GiveA Blade So Black...

Who doesn't love to go apple picking at the first sign of fall? A sister and brother celebrate autumn with a trip to a local apple orchard in this simple, rhyming Step 1 early reader. The kids bound with glee through the rows of trees, and race against...

Wilbur is different from the other naked mole rats in his colony, because he wears clothes. But what happens when Grandpah, the oldest, wisest, and most naked naked mole rat ever, discovers Wilbur's secret?Wilbur is different from the other naked mole...