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Rap It Up! by Carole Boston Weatherford and Primary Holt 32 pp.3/25 9781250833570 $18.99“My mom claims I was rapping before I could speak. / Matter of fact, I freestyled eight days a week.” A young MC serves as the narrator of this ode to hip-hop, which introduces readers to rap...
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/24 9781419760815 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781647006280 $17.09 A Panamanian American girl and her daddy get up before dawn to ride horses through their town in this atmospheric picture book that celebrates a close...
Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonIntermediate Dutton 320 pp.1/25 9780593855782 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593855799 $10.99In this historical novel in verse, fifth grader Cooper Dale is growing up near Pittsburgh in 1963 and grappling with issues concerning her identity as a Black child attending a predominantly white school. While her family encourages her...
Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood edited by Leah JohnsonIntermediate, Middle School Freedom Fire/Disney 320 pp.11/24 9781368098960 $18.99e-book ed. 9781368098984 $10.99Common early adolescent issues and those particular to Black girls are covered with depth and heart in this short story collection by fifteen authors. The protagonists are all...
Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker RhodesIntermediate Little, Brown 208 pp.1/25 9780316299336 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316299541 $9.99In this coming-of-age Western, twelve-year-old Will Samuels and his father, a stoic, formerly enslaved man, leave their sharecropper home in Texas for the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. Along the way, they encounter Caesar,...
Danilo Was Here by Tamika BurgessIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 304 pp.1/25 9780063159662 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063159686 $8.99In this fast-paced historical novel, Danilo is a Black Panamanian living in a neighborhood destroyed by the United States’ invasion of Panama in 1989. Since the first night of the attack, life has become more...
A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story by Nadia Salomon; illus. by London Ladd Primary Philomel 40 pp. 9/24 9780593525913 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593525920 $11.99 This picture-book biography begins with Evers-Williams (b. 1933), the first woman to chair the NAACP full time, speaking at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration...
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—the First Lady of Children’s Music by Tracy N. Todd; illus. by Eleanor DavisPrimary Chronicle 48 pp.1/25 9781452170640 $19.99Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) longed to make music from the time she was a little girl growing up in the segregated Bronzeville community of Chicago....
The first time I read My Daddy Is a Cowboy, I was drawn to C. G. Esperanza’s stunning illustrations and the sweetness of the narrative by Stephanie Seales. I love a good father-daughter story, and this one comes wrapped in an incredibly beautiful package. On subsequent readings, I only found...