Fiction - Diverse Reads

Learn about Bayard Rustin's fascinating life and how he played a role in one of the most important Civil Rights events in American history in the b...

Many important moments in history have not been taught in schools or explored in the mainstream media. These events often include people of color a...

Ana & Andrew travel to visit their grandparents in Savannah, Georgia. While they are there, they learn Grandma and Grandpa's church was built b...

Libro ganador del Premio Texas Bluebonnet de 2022 Imagínate aprender a leer a los 116 años! Conoce la historia real de Mary Walker, la estudiante ...

Here is the incredible story of Harvey Milk, one of the greatest fighters for gay rights. Called ""the most famous and most significantly open LGBT...

Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education Editor's Choice, Booklist Charlotte Zolotow Award - Highly Commended Title, Coo...

What do all these people have in common: the first man to die in the American Revolution, a onetime chief of the Crow Nation, the inventors of pean...

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 ...

Missouri, 1847 When James first started school, his sister practically had to drag him there. The classroom was dark and dreary, and James knew eve...

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

Jake Makes a World follows the creative adventures of the young Jacob Lawrence as he finds inspiration in the vibrant colors and characters of his ...

Twelve-year-old Rinko is looking forward to her summer vacation. But when her mother asks her to spend a month helping Mrs. Hata, a widowed friend,...

A Jar of Dreams is Yoshiko Uchida's work of unforgettable historical fiction about a young girl who grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American fa...

Yuki is free, but her struggle has just begun... After their release from an American internment camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try ...

I Am Black History is a poetic journey through the alphabet honoring some of the most brave, most creative, and most intellectual historical figure...

An ALA Notable Book for Children Winner of the Woodson Award He challenged the Supreme Court on his right to be called citizen--and won When Amer...

In 1878 Henry Ossian Flipper seemed destined for a long military career. Four years later, he was on trial at Fort Davis, Texas, for embezzlement o...

Colonel Oliver Spencer was a Revolutionary War hero forced by post-war poverty to homestead in the "far West," in the Ohio Valley. This was a dange...