Kids - Black Reads

Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the reside...

In the desegregation era of the 1970s, a first grader copes with being bused to a white school in this story for young children about racism and ...

Bestselling author and Coretta Scott King Award winner Andrea Davis Pinkney presents a moving fictional account of school desegregation in the Ci...

Featuring lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, here is a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went un...

The inspiring story of the 1963 Birmingham Children's March as seen through the eyes of four young people at the center of the action.The 1963 Bi...

"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." —Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The CrossoverFrom the New York Times bestselling ...

"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." - Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The CrossoverFrom the New York Times bestselling...

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookWinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionWhen eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them fr...

Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney present a poignant, blues-infused tribute to the men and women of the Montgomery bus boycott, who refused ...

A window into a child's experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston.Climbing...

It's up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American military pilots who helped the United States win World War II....

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most ...

"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, ...

"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, ...

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leadi...

Notes From Black ReadsIn The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis has expertly crafted a story that stands the test of time....

The New York Times New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award (2022)A lyrical road trip through the Mississippi Delta, explo...

Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse immerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale.Witness joins the Scholastic Go...

Discover the story behind Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in this compelling graphic novel — written by Oh My Gods! author Insha Fitzpa...

Discover the story behind Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in this compelling graphic novel — written by Oh My Gods! author Insha Fitzpa...

Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to t...

Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to t...

The powerful story of an eleven-year-old Black boy determined to stand up for his rights, who's pulled into the action of the 1963 civil rights d...