Young Readers (9 - 13)

Question: What's a five-year old genius' worst nightmare? Answer: Another five-year-old genius. Giant Afro. Even Bigger Brain. Jaden Toussaint is a five year-old who knows it all. I mean, really knows it all. Animal Scientist. Great Debater. Master of...

With so many hairstyles to choose from, how can anyone pick just one? Mommy Do My Hair is a beautifully illustrated book that celebrates the special bond mothers and daughters have when it comes to daily hairdos.

A Caldecott Honor BookMoja Means One introduces children to counting in Swahili with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations. "Magnificient,...

MIAMI JACKSON CAN'T wait for school to end. But who ever thought five days could be so long? His teacher is leaving for Ghana, his arch-enemy, Destinee Tate, is on his case, and now Miami's keeping secrets from his best friend, String. Summer can't come...

Mia uses her super-strength to break down walls in this fourth adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series! Mia is determined to be the best in her strength-training class, so she can learn how to lift cars, and climb super tall buildings! But when...

It's family field day in this ninth adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series! Mia and friends get ready for family field day at the PITS! Potato sack races, tug of war, and the hula hoop ring toss reach dangerous limits when a group of the most...

Your Mission: Find Mary's secret diary using spycraft stools to uncover hidden codes! It's a true story of bravery: Mary Bowser was an African American spy for the Union who worked as a maid in the mansion of Confederate Jefferson Davis. From...

From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow South. Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine,...

What if we all lived together in an equal world without hatred, prejudice, and racism dividing us?Today, the world is an unsafe place for ethnic minorities. We see riots and protests breaking out because minorities have their rights violated, their...

"Little Black Girls- Big Big World" follows Zoe and Chase as they explore and travel to different places, learn about different possibilities, and gain knowledge about different opportunities that they have as black girls. They learn that there are no...

An unforgettable novel from the New York Times bestselling Gordon Korman. Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika.Nobody can believe it. How could such...

2001 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisholm became the...