The first book in JaNay Brown-Wood’s Where in the Garden? series, Amara’s Farm, was released last year, September 2021. This March, book two, Miguel’s Community Garden, features Miguel as he “searches for sunflowers to take to his community garden party.” The series is described as “perfect for early childhood and elementary education units on agriculture, farming, gardening, and healthy eating” — or maybe National Nutrition Month, which is observed in March. Also, look for great selections in the coming days for Women’s History Month, including Khristi Lauren Adams’s Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way. From picture to YA books, celebrity, debut, favorite authors, and everything in between, this March list is wonderful!
Read the “Debut You” features for Julian Randall and Joy L. Smith, debut authors of Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa and Turning, respectively.
1. Why Not You?
Ciara and Russell Wilson | JaNay Brown-Wood | Jessica Gibson | Random House BYR | March 1 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
2. Miguel’s Community Garden (Where in the Garden?, Bk. 2)
JaNay Brown-Wood | Samara Hardy | Peachtree Publishing Company | March 1 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
3. Somewhere in the Bayou
Jarrett Pumphrey | Jerome Pumphrey | Norton Young Readers | March 1 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
4. Dearest One
Arielle Dance | Jenny Duke | Lantana | March 1 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
5. Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa (Pilar Ramirez Duology, 1)
Julian Randall | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | March 1 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
6. Turning
Joy L. Smith | Simon & Schuster/Millner | March 1 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
7. Every Variable of Us
Charles A. Bush | Flux | March 1 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
8. The Rumor Game
Dhonielle Clayton | Sona Charaipotra | March 1 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
9. Girl on Fire
Alicia Keys | Andrew Weiner | Brittney Williams | HarperCollins | March 1 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
10. Climb On!
Baptiste Paul | Jacqueline Alcántara | NorthSouth Books | March 8 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
11. Carrimebac: The Town That Walked
David Barclay Moore | John Holyfield | Candlewick | March 8 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
12. Stella Keeps the Sun Up
Clothilde Ewing | Lynn Gaines | S&S BYR/Denene Millner | March 8 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
13. Blood Scion (Blood Scion #1)
Deborah Falaye | HarperCollins | March 8 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
14. Brown Sugar Baby
Kevin Lewis | Jestenia Southerland | Cottage Door Press | March 15 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
15. One Black Cat and Other Numbers (Board Book)
Bernette Ford | Britta Teckentrup | Boxer Books | March 15 | BdBk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
16. Teddy, Truck and Other First Words (Board Book)
Bernette Ford | Britta Teckentrup | Boxer Books | March 15 | BdBk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
17. Emile and the Field
Kevin Young | Chioma Ebinama | Make Me a World | March 15 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
18. Right Where I Left You
Julian Winters | Viking BYR | March 15 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
19. Girl Dad
Sean Williams | Jay Davis | HarperCollins | March 22 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | Indiebound
20. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence
Sonja Thomas | Aladdin | March 22 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | Indiebound
21. Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way
Khristi Lauren Adams | Beaming Books | March 22 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | Indiebound
22. Okoye to the People: A Black Panther
Ibi Zoboi | Noa Denmon | Marvel Press | March 22 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
23. Abdul’s Story
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow | Tiffany Rose | Salaam Reads/S&S BYR | March 29 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
24. Jada Jones: Nature Lover (Bk. #6)
Kelly Starling Lyons | Nneka Myers | Penguin Workshop | March 29 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
25. Survive The Dome
Kosoko Jackson | Sourcebooks Fire | March 29 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
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