John Agard

Book

Half-Caste and Other Poems 

Tonya Bolden

Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing

FDR’s Alphabet Soup: New Deal America 1932-1939

33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A.

Muriel Miller Branch

The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People

Khephra Burns

Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali

Michel Chikwanine

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

Afua Cooper

The Red Caterpillar on College Street

Clinton Cox

Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown

Edwidge Danticat

The Royal Diaries: Anacaona, Golden Flower

Michaela DePrince

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by War, Saved by Ballet

Sylviane A. Diouf

Kings and Queens of East Africa

Kings and Queens of West Africa

Kings and Queens of Southern Africa

Kings and Queens of Central Africa

Shirley Graham Dubois

Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Son of the Nile

The Story of Pocahontas 

Lorenz B. Graham

John Brown’s Raid : A Picture History of the Attack on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

The Story of Jesus

Nikki Grimes

Tai Chi Morning 

At Jerusalem’s Gate 

James Haskins

African Beginnings

Corazon Aquino: Leader of the Philippines

The Creoles of Color of New Orleans 

From Afar to Zulu: A Dictionary of African Cultures

Winnie Mandela

Lynda Jones

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln

June Jordan

The Voice of the Children (Poetry by Children)

Jay Leslie

Who Did It First? 50 Politicians, Activists, and Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the World

Cookie Lommel

James Oglethorpe (Colonial Leaders)

Kekla Magoon

Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Labor Rights 

Nelson Mandela: A Leader for Freedom

Cedella Marley

The Boy from Nine Miles: The Early Life of Bob Marley 

Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

Tony Medina

The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems 

Morgan Monceaux 

My Heroes, My People: African Americans and Native Americans in the West 

Walter Dean Myers

Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom: A Thirst for Freedom

Marilyn Nelson

Sweethearts of Rhythm 

G.Neri

Grand Theft Horse

Lillie Patterson

Christmas in America 

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Who Captured Words 

Christmas in Britain and Scandinavia 

David, the Story of a King 

Francis Scott Key: Poet and Patriot

Megan Reid

Who Did It First? 50 Icons, Luminaries and Legends Who Revolutionized the World

Hope Anita Smith

It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz’s Story of Hope

Wanda Taylor

Birchtown and the Black Loyalists 

Charles Waters

Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z 

Benjamin Zephaniah

Wicked World

Schools’ Out

Funky Chicken 

Talking Turkeys