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In Black Girl You Are Atlas (Kokila/Penguin, 12–17), Renée Watson insightfully explores Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry encompassing a variety of experiences and influences, with an emphasis on support from other Black women, all accompanied by Ekua Holmes’s stunning collages. National Poetry Month is in April; see also “At...
Yaya and the Sea by Karen Good Marable; illus. by Tonya EngelPrimary Millner/Simon 40 pp.3/24 9781534462014 $18.99e-book ed. 9781534462021 $10.99On the first day of spring, Yaya and her mother get up before the sun to go to the sea. Mommy tells Yaya to “pick out the shiniest dimes. We are...
We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens; illus. by Briana Mukodiri UchenduPrimary Candlewick 32 pp.11/23 9781536222548 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536234619 $18.99A young Black girl notices a sparrow looking at her while she is enjoying time in the park with her mother. The mother tells her daughter, “I see that little birdie there...
Bumps in the Night by Amalie HowardIntermediate Delacorte 304 pp.2/24 9780593645871 $17.99Library ed. 9780593645888 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593645895 $10.99Twelve-year-old Darika Lovelace is spending the summer in Trinidad with her grandmother; she feels like her dad and stepmother don’t want her around because she has been getting in trouble. She also misses...
American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth WeinMiddle School, High School Putnam 384 pp.1/24 9780593323984 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593324004 $11.99Smith (The Blossom and the Firefly, rev. 3/20) and Wein (Stateless, rev. 3/23) introduce readers to the Black men...
Nesting Dolls by Vanessa Brantley-Newton; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Crown 40 pp.10/23 9781984852373 $18.99Library ed. 9781984852380 $21.99e-book ed. 9781984852397 $10.99Brantley-Newton highlights the bonds, both visible and invisible, that connect family members. Anyiaka’s older sister, Sorie, has light brown skin like their mom’s and grandma’s. Anyiaka’s darker skin causes her...
Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen FergusonHigh School Heartdrum/HarperCollins 352 pp.9/23 9780063086210 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063086234 $10.99Kiki, who is Black and Cree, has been gone for five months when the book begins, and the police have stopped looking for her. Her friend and fellow First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Student Association...
More than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. LongIntermediate, Middle School Farrar 272 pp.8/23 9780374391744 $21.99e-book ed. 9780374391751 $11.99Williams and Long provide readers with a complex narrative of the 1963 March on Washington that goes beyond Dr. Martin Luther...
Cape by Kevin Johnson; illus. by Kitt ThomasPrimary Roaring Brook 40 pp.6/23 9781250840509 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250336132 $10.99On the day of a funeral, a young brown-skinned boy wears the cape that the deceased gave him, as a shield against painful memories. After the funeral, the child continues to use the cape...