LibGuides: Black Lives Matter in Schools Week of Action: Lower School Books

Africa Is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight; Mark Melnicove; Anne Sibley O'Brien (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2002-08-01
eBook Version
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2009-12-22
eBook
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
eBook
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns by Hena Khan; Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
eBook
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2018-04-23
eBook
The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad; Hatem Aly (Illustrator); S. K. Ali (As told to)
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Audiobook
One Last Word by Nikki Grimes
Publication Date: 2017-01-03
eBook
Freedom over Me by Ashley Bryan
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Audiobook
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2009-05-14
eBook
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator); Gwen Strauss
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
eBook
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Audiobook
Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl; Sandra van Doorn (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2018-10-01
eBook
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Publication Date: 1996-12-03
eBook
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle; Rafael López (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
eBook
Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; Colin Bootman (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2003-01-08
eBook
Islandborn by Junot Díaz; Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
eBook

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Africa Is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight; Mark Melnicove; Anne Sibley O'Brien (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780761316473
Publication Date: 2002-08-01
All the Colors We Are/Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel by Katie Kissinger
Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.
Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings by Francie Latour; Ken Daley Daley (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781773060415
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford; Sean Qualls (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780805079944
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Bintou's Braids by Sylvianne Diouf; Shane Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780811846295
Publication Date: 2004-10-07
Bippity Bop Barbershop by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316033824
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780761339434
Publication Date: 2015-11-01
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba; Bryan Mealer; Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780803735118
Publication Date: 2012-01-19
Brick by Brick by Charles R. Smith; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061920844
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson; Don Tate (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781561459346
Publication Date: 2019-02-01
Catching the Moon by Crystal Hubbard; Randy DuBurke (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781600605727
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780375843143
Publication Date: 2009-12-22
Crown by Derrick Barnes; Gordon C. James (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781572842243
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
A Day at the Museum by Christine Platt; Sharon Sordo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781532133527
Publication Date: 2018-12-15
The Day of Ahmed's Secret by Florence Parry Heide; Judith Heide Gilliland; Ted Lewin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780688140236
Publication Date: 1995-04-25
Don't Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
ISBN: 9780316562584
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
Dream Builder by Kelly Starling Lyons; Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620149553
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
ISBN: 9780823440559
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle; Rafael López (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780544102293
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399246524
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
Eight Days by Edwidge Danticat; Alix Delinois (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780545278492
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Ellen's Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons; Daniel Minter (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399250033
Publication Date: 2012-01-05
Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689828843
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; Eric Larkin (Illustrator); Will Allen (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780983661535
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Fiesta Para 10 by Cathryn Falwell
ISBN: 9780618442157
Publication Date: 2004-03-23
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN: 9780823439607
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Freedom over Me by Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481456906
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams; Catherine Stock (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780688109912
Publication Date: 1991-08-21
The Gender Wheel by Maya Gonzalez
ISBN: 9781945289057
Publication Date: 2017-11-20
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns by Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator); Hena Khan
ISBN: 9781452141213
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry; Vashti Harrison
ISBN: 9780525553366
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renée Watson; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780375869730
Publication Date: 2012-10-23
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439777339
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Hip Hop Speaks to Children by Nikki Giovanni; Alicia Vergel de Dios (Illustrator); Damian Ward (Illustrator); Kristen Balouch (Illustrator); Michele Noiset (Illustrator); Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781402210488
Publication Date: 2008-10-01

The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-11-01
eBook Version
Crown by Derrick Barnes; Gordon C. James (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Audiobook Version
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; Eric Larkin (Illustrator); Will Allen (Afterword by)
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Read Along eBook
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
eBook
Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
eBook
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
eBook
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
eBook
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
eBook
Mama's Nightingale by Edwidge Danticat; Leslie Staub (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
eBook
Rich: a Dyamonde Daniel Book by Nikki Grimes; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2009-10-29
eBook
Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons; Keith Mallett (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
eBook
The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron; Ann Strugnell (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 1989-01-21
eBook
Wangari Maathai by Franck Prévot; Aurélia Fronty (Illustrator); Franck Prévot; Aurélia Fronty (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
eBook
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba; Bryan Mealer; Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2012-01-19
eBook version
Lola by Junot Díaz; Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
eBook in Spanish

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Books at the CCPCS Library

I Am Enough by Grace Byers; Keturah A. Bobo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062667120
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
I Am Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown; Jason Brown; Anoosha Syed (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250232212
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316525589
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
I Love My Purse by Belle DeMont
ISBN: 9781554519545
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Islandborn by Junot Díaz; Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780735229860
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
It Feels Good to Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn; Noah Grigni (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250302953
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781452103143
Publication Date: 2014-01-14
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763690458
Publication Date: 2018-04-23
Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah E. Richards; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator); LisaGay Hamilton (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)
ISBN: 9781416902645
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Kitchen Dance by Maurie J. Manning (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780618991105
Publication Date: 2008-10-06
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford; Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481468244
Publication Date: 2017-01-24
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780152054458
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780385390286
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781600608988
Publication Date: 2014-09-01
Llámame Árbol by Maya Christina Gonzalez; Dana Goldberg
ISBN: 9780892392940
Publication Date: 2014-11-01
Lola by Junot Díaz; Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525552819
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
Lost in the Tunnel of Time by Sharon M. Draper; Jesse Joshua Watson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781442427044
Publication Date: 2011-07-12
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399251757
Publication Date: 2009-05-14
Malcolm X by Walter Dean Myers; Leonard Jenkins (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060562014
Publication Date: 2003-12-23
Mama's Nightingale by Edwidge Danticat; Leslie Staub (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525428091
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Mama Africa! by Kathryn Erskine
ISBN: 9780374303013
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Milo's Museum by Zetta Elliott; Purple Wong (Illustrator)
This story opens the door to age-appropriate conversations with young children about representation, institutional racism, youth activism, museum studies, lessons from family, and community engagement.
Miss Tizzy by Libba Moore Gray; Jada Rowland (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689818974
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow; Ebony Glenn (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534400603
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence by Gretchen Woelfle; Alix Delinois (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780761365891
Publication Date: 2014-02-01
My Hair Is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780807509234
Publication Date: 2018-04-01
My Name Is Celia by Monica Brown; Rafael López (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780873588720
Publication Date: 2004-10-30
One by Kathryn Otoshi
ISBN: 9780972394642
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul; Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781467716086
Publication Date: 2015-02-01
Parker Looks Up by Parker Curry; Jessica Curry; Brittany Jackson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534451865
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Pelé, King of Soccer (Pelé, el Rey del Fútbol) by Monica Brown; Rudy Gutierrez (Illustrator); Fernando Gayesky (Translator)
ISBN: 9780061227790
Publication Date: 2008-12-23
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito; Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781499807202
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee; Tonya Lewis Lee; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689832338
Publication Date: 2002-11-01
Princess Hair by Sharee Miller
ISBN: 9780316441223
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad; S. K. Ali; Hatem Aly (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316519007
Publication Date: 2019-09-10

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Wangari Maathai
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Civl War
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Motown
Harlem Rennaissance
Hip-Hop and Rap

Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
eBook
Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renée Watson; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2012-10-23
eBook
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Audiobook
Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl; Sandra van Doorn (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2017-10-01
eBook
This Is the Rope by Jacqueline Woodson; James Ransome (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2013-08-29
eBook
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Audiobook
Schomburg: the Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Audiobook
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence by Gretchen Woelfle; Alix Delinois (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2014-02-01
eBook
Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Audiobook
One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul; Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
Call Number: https://soraapp.com/library/mddcmd/generated-1142468/page-1/202842/2077453
Publication Date: 2015-02-01
eBook

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Red by Michael Hall (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062252074
Publication Date: 2015-02-03
Rich by Nikki Grimes; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399251764
Publication Date: 2009-10-29
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller; Gregory Christie
ISBN: 9781880000885
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator); Gwen Strauss
ISBN: 9780761352556
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Schomburg by Carole Boston Weatherford; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763680466
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Selavi, That Is Life by Youme Landowne
ISBN: 9780938317951
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California.
Shades of Black by Sandra L. Pinkney; Myles C. Pinkney (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439802512
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons; Keith Mallett (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525516095
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl; Sandra van Doorn (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781911373391
Publication Date: 2018-10-01
Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Artist)
ISBN: 9780316070164
Publication Date: 2010-02-03
Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl; Sandra van Doorn (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781911373094
Publication Date: 2017-10-01
Someday Is Now by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich; Jade Johnson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781633224988
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron; Ann Strugnell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780394828923
Publication Date: 1989-01-21
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534425361
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Tan to Tamarind by Malathi Michelle Iyengar; Jamel Akib (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780892392278
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
ISBN: 9780517885444
Publication Date: 1996-12-03
Tea Cakes for Tosh by Kelly Starling Lyons; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399252136
Publication Date: 2012-12-06
These Hands by Margaret H. Mason; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780544555464
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
This Is the Rope by Jacqueline Woodson; James Ransome (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399239861
Publication Date: 2013-08-29
Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780152060060
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Trombone Shorty by Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419714658
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
Under My Hijab by Hena Khan; Aaliya Jaleel (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620147924
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan by Joan DiCicco; Ebony Glenn (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620145647
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763665319
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Wangari Maathai by Franck Prévot; Aurélia Fronty (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781580896269
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780786808328
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
We March by Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250073259
Publication Date: 2016-01-12
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff; Kaylani Juanita (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620148372
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
When the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill; Theodore Taylor (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596435407
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
When We Love Someone We Sing to Them by Ernesto Javier Martinez; Maya Christina Gonzalez (Illustrator); Jorge Gabriel Martinez Feliciano (Translator)
ISBN: 9781945289149
Publication Date: 2018-10-11
Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Méndez; Jaime Kim (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062839930
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
The Women Who Caught the Babies by Eloise Greenfield; Daniel Minter (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780997772074
Publication Date: 2019-09-01