Gallery of Heroes: Black History Month J Biographies
Read about some of the African Americans who made history with these biographies for young readers.
Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality!
James Buckley
Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut
Charles F Bolden, Tonya Bolden
Fifty Cents and a Dream
Jabari Asim
(untitled)
(none)
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
Gene Barretta
Work It, Girl: Mae Jemison
Caroline Moss
Stevie Wonder
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
King of Ragtime
Stephen Costanza
A Crown of Stories: the Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison
Carole Boston Weatherford
She was the First!
Katheryn Russell-Brown
Harriet Tubman
Robin S. Doak
(untitled)
(none)
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Andrea Davis Pinkney
We Wait for the Sun
Katie McCabe
(untitled)
(none)
Holding Her Own
Traci N. Todd
(untitled)
(none)
Song for Jimi
Charles R. Smith Jr.
(untitled)
(none)
To Boldly Go
Angela Dalton
The Vast Wonder of the World
Mélina Mangal
I Am Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges
Madam C.J. Walker
Sally Lee
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round
Kathlyn J. Kirkwood
The Met Faith Ringgold
Sharna Jackson
Mae Makes a Way
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Only the Best
Kate Messner, Margaret E. Powell
A Computer Called Katherine
Suzanne Slade
(untitled)
(none)
Dovey Undaunted
Tonya Bolden
Susie King Taylor
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Candace Buford
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Carole Boston Weatherford
Coretta: The Autobiography of Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
Patricia's Vision
Michelle Lord
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Breanna J. McDaniel
Who Was Duke Ellington?
M. D. Payne, Who HQ
(untitled)
(none)
Lizzie Demands a Seat!
Beth Anderson
(untitled)
(none)
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free
Alice Faye Duncan
Etched in Clay
Andrea Cheng
Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther
Katie Kawa
Baseball's Leading Lady
Andrea Williams
Radiant Child
Javaka Steptoe
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
Carole Boston Weatherford
Sprouting Wings
Louisa Jaggar, Shari Becker
Choosing Brave
Angela Joy
Amanda Gorman
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
(untitled)
(none)
Star Child
Ibi Zoboi
(untitled)
(none)
(untitled)
(none)
Wonderful Hair
Eve Nadel Catarevas
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
Carole Boston Weatherford, Rob Sanders
Jump at the Sun
Alicia D. Williams
(untitled)
(none)
Black Jack
Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar
Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Dream Builder
Kelly Starling Lyons
Frederick Douglass
Josh Gregory
Life in Motion
Misty Copeland, Brandy Colbert
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Carole Boston Weatherford
(untitled)
(none)
Charlie Takes His Shot
Nancy Churnin
Cicely Tyson
RENE. WATSON
Perfect Timing
Patsi B. Trollinger
(untitled)
(none)
You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!
Chiquita Mullins Lee, Carmella Van Vleet
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Carole Boston Weatherford
(untitled)
(none)
Queen of the Track
Heather Lang
Middle Grade Books by Black Authors
This list was made for readers in partnership in the Frank X. Walker Literary Festival 2021
Black Boy Joy
Kwame Mbalia
Blended
Sharon M. Draper
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams
Ghost
Jason Reynolds
Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes
A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramée
New Kid
Jerry Craft
How High the Moon
Karyn Parsons
Hurricane Child
Kheryn Callender
The Jumbies
Tracey Baptiste
The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer
Lamar Giles
Like Vanessa
Tami Charles
My Life As an Ice Cream Sandwich
Ibi Zoboi
The Long Ride
Marina Tamar Budhos
Something to Say
Lisa Moore Ramée
Class Act
Jerry Craft
One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia
The Parker Inheritance
Varian Johnson
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon
So Done
Paula Chase
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
David Barclay Moore
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Kwame Mbalia
Shuri: a Black Panther Novel (Marvel)
Nic Stone
Clean Getaway
Nic Stone
Look Both Ways
Jason Reynolds
Child of the Dream
Sharon Robinson
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Janae Marks
March Forward, Girl
Melba Pattillo Beals
Becoming Muhammad Ali
James Patterson, Kwame Alexander
Betty Before X
Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson
The Harlem Charade
Natasha Tarpley
When Life Gives You Mangos
Kereen Getten
The Last Mirror on the Left
Lamar Giles
Turning Point
Paula Chase
Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson
The Usual Suspects
Maurice Broaddus
Take Back the Block
Chrystal D. Giles
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
Kelly J. Baptist
Some Places More Than Others
Renée Watson
(untitled)
(none)
What Lane?
Torrey Maldonado
Serena Says
Tanita S. Davis
The Magic in Changing Your Stars
Leah Henderson
The Only Black Girls in Town
Brandy Colbert
Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson
Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson
Twins (Twins #1)
Varian Johnson
Jayla Jumps in
Joy Jones
(untitled)
(none)
Arcade and the Triple T Token
Rashad Jennings
(untitled)
(none)
Definitely Daphne
Tami Charles
Planet Middle School
(none)
Twinchantment (Twinchantment Series #1)
Elise Allen
Dough Boys
Paula Chase
As Brave As You
Jason Reynolds
Stella by Starlight
Sharon M. Draper
For Black Girls Like Me
Mariama J. Lockington
Glory Be
Augusta Scattergood
Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Jackson
Root Magic
(none)
Martin Rising
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Stamped (for Kids)
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Forever This Summer
Leslie C. Youngblood
Josephine Against the Sea
Shakirah Bourne
Marcus Makes a Movie
Kevin Hart
Training Camp
Wesley King, Kobe Bryant
A High Five for Glenn Burke
Phil Bildner
A Whole New Ballgame
Phil Bildner
Maya and the Robot
Eve L. Ewing
Amari and the Night Brothers
B. B. Alston
Maya and the Rising Dark
Rena Barron
Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found
Rucker Moses, Theo Gangi
Sci-Fu
Yehudi Mercado
Finding Langston
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Dragons in a Bag
Zetta Elliott
Just South of Home
Karen Strong
The Forgotten Girl
India Hill Brown
Hide and Seeker
Daka Hermon
Ikenga
Nnedi Okorafor
Dactyl Hill Squad
Daniel José Older
Ophie's Ghosts
Justina Ireland
Star Wars Project Luminous Middle Grade Novel
Justina Ireland
Paradise on Fire
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Partly Cloudy
Tanita S. Davis
Playing a Dangerous Game
Patrick Ochieng
A Soft Place to Land
Janae Marks
Unti H. G. Celeb MG Novel
LeBron James, Andrea Williams
Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Jason Reynolds
Keeping It Real
Paula Chase
Last Gate of the Emperor
Kwame Mbalia, Prince Joel Makonnen
Playing the Cards You're Dealt
Varian Johnson
The Shadow Prince
David Anthony Durham
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels (LOA #348)
Virginia Hamilton
The Swag Is in the Socks
Kelly J. Baptist
Wildseed Witch (Book 1)
Marti Dumas
Rain Rising
Courtne Comrie
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
Sherri Winston
Be Real, Macy Weaver
Lakita Wilson
We Were the Fire
Shelia P. Moses
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
Roseanne Brown
A Taste of Magic
J. Elle
Etta Invincible
Reese Eschmann
Eden's Everdark
Karen Strong
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
Tolá Okogwu
50 Books to Read Before Kindergarten
Here is our list of 50 Books to Read Before starting Kindergarten!! This list was lovingly made by our librarians to share books that are fun to read and developmentally appropriate for those about to start Kindergarten.
Beneath
Cori Doerrfeld
Between Words: A Friendship Tale
Saki Tanaka
Boxitects
Kim Smith
The Boy Who Loved Maps
Kari Allen
Color Zoo
Lois Ehlert
Dad Bakes
Katie Yamasaki
Daniel's Good Day
Micha Archer
Dinothesaurus
Douglas Florian
The Dot
Peter Reynolds
Fern and Otto
Stephanie Graegin
Fresh-Picked Poetry
Michelle Schaub
Good Night, Baddies
Deborah Underwood
Grilled Cheese? Yes, Please!
Tim Kleyn
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
Karen Beaumont
I Like This, You Like That
Linda Ashman
I Love You, Stinky Face
Lisa McCourt
I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen
If Frogs Made the Weather
Marion Dane Bauer
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
(none)
Just Because
Mac Barnett
Lena's Shoes Are Nervous
Keith Calabrese
Linus The Little Yellow Pencil
Scott Magoon
Little i
Michael Hall
Little Seasons: Spring Seeds
Mirka Hokkanen
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)
Philemon Sturges
Love Waves
Rosemary Wells
The Mochi Makers
Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
Mommy's Hometown
Hope Lim
Monster Hands
Karen Kane, Jonaz McMillan
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
Dr. Seuss
My Dog's a Chicken
Susan McElroy Montanari
Outside In
Deborah Underwood
Over and Under the Snow
Kate Messner
Owl Moon
Jane Yolen
Raindrops Roll
April Pulley Sayre
Round Is a Tortilla
Roseanne Thong
The Runaway Pea
Kjartan Poskitt
Spoon
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Thank You, Omu!
Oge Mora
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly
Simms Taback
There's a Monster in Your Book
Tom Fletcher
We Don't Eat Our Classmates
Ryan T. Higgins
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Whose Egg Is That?
Darrin Lunde
Wonder Walkers
Micha Archer
50 Books to Read Before First Grade
Here is our list of 50 Books to Read Before starting First Grade!! This list was lovingly made by our librarians to share books that are fun to read and developmentally appropriate for those about to start First Grade.
The Adventures of Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish
All the Water in the World
George Ella Lyon
Awe-Samosas!
Marzieh Abbas
Badger's Perfect Garden
Marsha Diane Arnold
Bean Thirteen
(none)
Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep!
Todd Tarpley
The Big Bike
C. L. Reid
The Boo-Boos of Bluebell Elementary
Chelsea Lin Wallace
The Book with No Pictures
B. J. Novak
Brilliant Bea
Shaina Rudolph, Mary Vukadinovich
Built to Last
Minh Lê
Can Bears Ski?
(none)
Chicken Talk
Patricia MacLachlan
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
Dessert Island
Ben Zhu
Does a Bulldozer Have a Butt?
Derick Wilder
Empanadas for Everyone
Jackie Azúa Kramer
Ernest, the Moose Who Doesn't Fit
Catherine Rayner
Every Night Is Pizza Night
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Gianna Ruggiero
Days with Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel
Gift & Box
Ellen Mayer
The Hidden Forest
Jeannie Baker
I Will Read to You
Gideon Sterer
Julián Is a Mermaid
Jessica Love
The Itchy Book! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)
Mo Willems, LeUyen Pham
Kipper and Roly
(none)
Leave Me Alone!
Vera Brosgol
Malik's Number Thoughts
(none)
Marigold Bakes a Cake
(none)
My Friend Earth
Patricia MacLachlan
Rainbow Hands
Mamta Nainy
The Rainbow Mystery
Fran Manushkin
The Robot and the Bluebird
David Lucas
Saving the Sun
Emma Pearl
Scorch, Hedgehog of Doom
Cate Berry
Secret Pizza Party
Adam Rubin
Something Smells!
Blake Liliane Hellman
Song in the City
Daniel Bernstrom
Square
Mac Barnett
The Squish
Breanna Carzoo
Stellaluna
Janell Cannon
This Table
Alex Killian
Thunder Cake
Patricia Polacco
What Do You Do with an Idea?
Kobi Yamada
When We Gather (Ostadahlisiha): a Cherokee Tribal Feast
Andrea L. Rogers
Where the Sidewalk Ends
(none)
The World's Best Class Plant
Audrey Vernick, Liz Garton Scanlon
Yumbo Gumbo
Keila V. Dawson
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