January
Stella by Starlight – Sharon Draper
X – Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony – Nikki Grimes
Freedom’s School – Lesa Cline-Ransome
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital – Tonya Bolden
28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World – Charles R. Smith Jr.
Little Rhino #1: My New Team – Ryan Howard and Krystle Howard
February
Streetball Crew #2: Stealing the Game – Kareem Abdul-Jabar
Neon Aliens Ate My Homework: And Other Poems – Nick Cannon
Frederick Douglass and the North Star – Lorenzo Pace
Harriet Tubman and My Grandmother’s Quilts – Lorenzo Pace
Marching with Martin – Lorenzo Pace
Jalani and the Lock – Lorenzo Pace
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America – Carole Boston Weatherford
Juneteenth for Mazie – Floyd Cooper
This Side of Home – Renée Watson
Birchtown and the Black Loyalists – Wanda Lauren Taylor
March
The Jumbies – Tracey Baptiste
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!) – Charles George Esperanza
The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story – Alton Carter
Tate Kids Modern Art Activity Book –Sharna Jackson
My Pen – Christopher Myers
Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective: The Sweetest Heist in History – Octavia Spencer
If You Plant a Seed – Kadir Nelson
Mo’ne: Remember My Name: My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer – Mo’ne Davis
Little Rhino #2: The Best Bat – Ryan Howard and Krystle Howard
April
Gone Crazy in Alabama – Rita Williams-Garcia
Trombone Shorty – Troy Andrews
Twintuition: Double Vision – Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry
Endangered – Lamar Giles
Amina: Through My Eyes – J.L. Power
The Grasshopper & the Ants – Jerry Pinkney
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives – Martin Ganda and Caitlin Alifirenka, with Liz Welch
MAY
Unlocking the Truth: Three Brooklyn Teens on Life, Friendship and Making the Band – Unlocking the Truth, Charisse Jones and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
Tiny Pretty Things – Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
By Trolley Past Thimbledon Bridge – Ashley Bryan
Bayou Magic – Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem – Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Poems in the Attic – Nikki Grimes
