Celebrate Black History Month with these reads for kids and teens. Titles include biographies of well-known and lesser-known historical figures, graphic novels, and picture books.
Picture Books
- Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker
- The 5 O’Clock Band by Troy Andrews
- Don’t Touch My Hair by Sharee Miller
- The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- The Bell Rang by James E. Ransome
- The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan
- No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas by Tonya Bolden
- What Is Given from the Heart by Patrick C. McKissack
Easy Readers
- African-American History Makers Collection by Kitson Jaznyka
- Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter by Nadia L. Hohn
- Kick It, Mo! by David Adler
- King and Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats by Dori Hillestad Butler
- Michelle Obama: First Lady, Going Higher by Shana Corey
Juvenile
Fiction (Chapter Books)
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
- Lu by Jason Reynolds
- Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan
- The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
- Tiana’s Best Surprise by Tessa Roehl
- Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks (Graphic Novel)
Nonfiction
- Black Women Who Dared by Naomi M. Moyer
- George Washington Carver for Kids: His Life and Discoveries, With 21 Activities by Peggy Thomas
- Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away (Young Readers Edition) by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Who Was Booker T. Washington? by James Buckley Jr.
- The March on Washington by Bonnie Bader
Young Adult
- A Blade So Black by L. L. McKinney
- Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America, Edited by Ibi Zoboi
- Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge
- Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson
- Pride by Ibi Zoboi
- Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
- As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman (Graphic Novel)
– recommended by Kathleen L., Collection Management Librarian
