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Youth Book List
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
Afro-Bets Kids: I’m Gonna Be! by Wade Hudson
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Black like Kira, White like Me by Judith Vigna
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Carol Willis Hudson & Bernette G. Ford
By Any Means Necessary by Cam Montgomery
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
Clean Up! by Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar
For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington
Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? By Sandy Lynne Holman
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Hair Love by Matthew Cherry & Vashti Harrison
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
How To Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
I Love My Hair! By Natasha Tarpley
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher by Juanita Havill
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena & Christian Robinson
Little Legends: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Look Up! by Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola
My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Nappy Hair by Carolivia Herron
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Read for Me, Mama by Vashanti Rahaman
Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden
Sosu’s Call by Meshack Asare
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
The Color of Us by Karen Katz
The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
The Stars and The Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
The Trouble With Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson & Ellen Hagan
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyn
You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson