BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a “remarkable and stirring novel” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling a...

In the follow-up book to Curiously Cara Meets Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Daisy the Talking Cat, Grandma, Cara, and her sister, Amani, journey to ancient N...

Bebe, a bookworm with an outlandish imagination, lives a peculiarly privileged life for a Black girl during the Great Depression. Her fearless fath...

Bebe, a bookworm with an outlandish imagination, lives a peculiarly privileged life for a Black girl during the Great Depression. Her fearless fath...

Kato Kintu challenges the evil King Bemba to a duel. But Kintu loses terribly and flees into exile on an island. There, he gains wisdom and experie...

THE RACE AND GOD'S GIFTS Book's Synopsis By, Helen J. Slaughter Tarrence is a rabbit, and Samuel a squirrel. Both Tarrence and Samuel dreamed big. ...

Journey back in time to the heart of ancient Africa and witness the incredible return of Imhotep, the visionary architect, as he fearlessly takes o...

Journey back in time to the heart of ancient Africa and witness the incredible return of Imhotep, the visionary architect, as he fearlessly takes o...

An inventive and stylish debut written by a Black educator, Wings of Red is a clear-eyed, funny, imperfect, and observant work of autofiction that ...

Paula visits Nana invites readers of all ages to embark on a heartwarming journey, filled with the magic of storytelling and the power of familial ...

It's the day before the big parade. Alta can only think about one thing: Wilma Rudolph, three-time Olympic gold medalist. She'll be riding on a f...

This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders an...

À quoi ressemblait la communauté? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football; un e...

Lucy Ann and Dabney Walker didn't have to risk their lives to spy for the Union army. The couple had already risked everything to escape slavery th...

When Charles schedules a playdate with his friends Lucius and Robert, they have no idea they're about to travel back in time to Gee's Bend, Alabama...

In the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston's family and hometown persuade her to leave childhood behind and find her de...

A 2019 Edgar Award NomineeA powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and ...

Coretta Scott King wasn't always a prominent civil rights activist--learn about her childhood in this incredible installment in the illustrated mid...

"Before this decisive night, I'd not fully appreciated the subtle line between inspiration and insanity. But now, with all our lives at risk, I fou...

What's inside Aunt Jo's treasure chest? That's what Ava wants to know. Then, one night, Aunt Jo hands her the key...and the two take a magical jour...

"'Words are powerful, ' Grandma told Justice. 'They can be used in powerful ways to do good or to do harm. That's why it's important to always be c...