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Children’s and Young Adult Books for Black History Month

January 31, 2019

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

Filed Under: All, Books, Children, Preschoolers, Reading, Teens, Toddlers Tagged With: Black History Month, recommended reads

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