This list may not feature all the new titles for April 2020. The titles are listed according to their release date. Sometimes, however, publishers may move a release date up or back. If you know of any that are not listed or the release date has changed, leave us a comment below.
Tiara’s Hat Parade
Kelly Starling Lyons | Nicole Tadgell | Albert Whitman & Co | PB | April 1 | Amazon | IndieBound
Who Will You Be?
Andrea Pippins | Schwartz & Wade | PB | April 7 | Amazon | IndieBound
A Story about Afiya
James Berry | Anna Cunha | Lantana Publishing | PB | April 7 | Amazon | IndieBound
Bedtime Bonnet
Nancy Redd | Random House BYR | PB | April 7 | Amazon | IndieBound
The Magic in Changing Your Stars
Leah Henderson | Sterling Children’s Books | MG | April 7 | Amazon | IndieBound
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Carole Boston Weatherford | Michele Wood | Candlewick | MG/PB | April 14 | Amazon | IndieBound
What Lane?
Torrey Maldonado | Nancy Paulsen Books | YA | April 14 | Amazon | IndieBound
When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson | Omar Mohamed | Iman Geddy | Dial Book | MG | April 14 | Amazon | IndieBound
Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko | Amulet Books | YA | April 14 | Amazon | IndieBound
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Wes Moore | Erica L. Green | One World | YA | April 14 | Amazon | IndieBound
I Love Me!
LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss | Beth Hughes | Beaming Books | PB | April 21 | Amazon | IndieBound
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
Evette Dionne | Viking BYR | MG | April 21 | Amazon | IndieBound
Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson | Bloomsbury Children’s Books | MG | April 28 | Amazon | IndieBound
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
George M. Johnson | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | YA | April 28 | Amazon | IndieBound
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