Celebrate Black History, Culture, and Experiences All Year

Champion empowering and inspiring stories about Black culture, experiences, and historical figures by adding these titles to your classroom or school library.

Picture Books & Early Readers

Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar

The Green Piano

Ice Cream Man

Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom

Smart Sisters

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

The Faith of Elijah Cummings

Sweet Justice

Dream Street

Harlem's Little Blackbird

No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas

Born Ready

Shirley Chisholm Dared

Mae Makes a Way

Middle-Grade

Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers

Black Boy Joy

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963: 25th Anniversary Edition

The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers)

A Mighty Long Way (Adapted for Young Readers)

This Is Your Time

Brave. Black. First.

Recognize!

The Dark-Thirty

Take Back the Block

Defiant

Young Adult

Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman

This Is My America

Maybe An Artist, A Graphic Memoir

Caste (Adapted for Young Adults)

Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults)

Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults)

The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults)

145th Street: Short Stories

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Dear Martin

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Celebrate the 100th Day of School

Celebrate the 100th Day of School

These books are perfect classroom read-alouds to celebrate the highly anticipated 100th Day of School.

The 100 Hats of the Cat in the Hat

Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School

Rocket's 100th Day of School (Step Into Reading, Step 1)