This is the last new releases book list of 2021! The She Persisted chapter book series continues with Renee Watson covering Oprah Winfrey. That should be a good one. Voting rights activist, author, and attorney, Stacey Abrams tells her own story in Stacey’s Extraordinary Words. Look for more book series, stories, and poetry from authors Amanda Gorman, Bryan Collier, Jordannah Elizabeth, and more!
A Holiday-themed book list is coming along with great book gift ideas, like Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History by debut author, Charlotte Nebres. It’s releasing on December 21st. Maybe it will arrive just in time for gift-giving or for a wonderful Christmas Eve read aloud. Happy Reading!
1. Sunday Dinner
Angela Shanté | Seth Rogers | Montaysia Yuneek Sims | Sunday Dinner Publishing | December 7 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
2. We Shall Overcome
Bryan Collier | Orchard Books | December 7 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
3. Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan’s Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal
Karyn Parsons | R. Gregory Christie | Little, Brown BYR | December 7 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
4. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman | Viking Books | December 7 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
5. The Upper World
Femi Fadugba | HarperTeen | December 7 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
6. Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files #1: Exploring Flight!
Andrea Beaty | Dr. Theanne Griffith | David Roberts | Amulet Books | December 14 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
7. You Should Meet: John Lewis
Denise Lewis Patrick | Steffi Walthall | Simon Spotlight | December 14 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
8. Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History
Charlotte Nebres | Alea Marley | Random House BYR | December 21 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
9. A is for Oboe: The Orchestra’s Alphabet
Lera Auerbach | Marilyn Nelson | Paul Hoppe | Dial Books | December 21 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
10. She Persisted: Oprah Winfrey
Renée Watson | Gillian Flint | Philomel Books | December 21 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
11. Segregated Skies: One Pilot’s Trailblazing Journey to Rise Above Racial Barriers
Michael H. Cottman | National Geographic Kids | December 21 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
12. I, Too, Sing America
Langston Hughes | Katie Crumpton | little bee books | December 28 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
13. Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
Stacey Abrams | Kitt Thomas | Balzer + Bray | December 28 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
14. Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Civil Rights Movement
Hanif Abdurraqib | Ashley Evans | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | December 28 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
15. What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
Sherri L. Smith | Who HQ | Tim Foley | Penguin Workshop | December 28 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
16. Honest June
Tina Wells | Brittney Bond | Random House BY | December 28 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
17. She Raised Her Voice!: 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way into Music History
Jordannah Elizabeth | Briana Dengoue | Running Press Kids | December 28 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
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