Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. In his first outing as author as well as illustrator, Nelson (Ellington Was Not a Street) delivers a history of th...More

School Library Journal : Gr 1–4—The varieties of African-American ethnic heritage are often rendered invisible by the rigid construction ...More

Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Bryan (Beautiful Blackbird) again proves himself a maestro with scissors (depicted on the endpages) in a series of...More

Publishers Weekly : Elijah Freeman, 11, has two claims to fame. He was the first child born free to former slaves in Buxton, a (real) haven establish...More

Publishers Weekly: Draper's (Forged by Fire) historical novel takes on an epic sweep as it chronicles the story of 15-year-old Amari, kidnapped f...More

Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. In this gorgeous, poetic picture book, Weatherford (The Sound that Jazz Makes) depicts Harriet Tubman's initia...More

Publishers Weekly: Unfolding like a play, Lester's novel in dialogue—based on actual events—cannot help but be informed by his resear...More

Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Giovanni (The Sun Is So Quiet) and Collier (Uptown) offer a moving interpretation of Rosa Parks's momentous re...More

Publishers Weekly : Assembling more than 50 photographs depicting segregation, school scenes and events prior to and following the 1954 Supreme Court...More

Publishers Weekly : At once personal and universal, Shange's poem, "Mood Indigo" (published in her 1983 poetry collection, A Daughter's Geo...More

Publishers Weekly : In this companion novel, Johnson's fans learn just how Bobby, the single father for whom Marley baby-sits in Heaven, landed in th...More

Publishers Weekly : Storyteller Bryan's (What a Wonderful World) singular voice provides rhythm and sound effects throughout this musical adaptation ...More

Publishers Weekly : When a high school teacher in the Bronx begins to host open-mike poetry in his classroom on Fridays, his students find a forum to...More

Publishers Weekly : Historic flights take the spotlight in two fall titles. Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Gri...More

Publishers Weekly : McKissack draws from her childhood in Nashville for this instructive picture book. "I don't know if I'm ready to turn you lo...More

Publishers Weekly : Once again, Woodson (If You Come Softly; From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun) reveals a keen understanding of the adolescent psyche...More

Publishers Weekly: "Collier's watercolor and collage artwork effectively blends a boy's idealism with the telling details of the city s...More

Library Journal : Gr 4-7-Motherless Bud shares his amusingly astute rules of life as he hits the road to find the jazz musician he believes is his fa...More

Publishers Weekly : Siegelsons (The Terrible, Wonderful Tellin at Hog Hammock) lyrical retelling of a Gullah legend seems to pulse in time to the goa...More

Publishers Weekly : As in her Gone from Home (reviewed above), Johnson here explores the themes of what makes a place home and which people family. F...More

School Library Journal : Gr 7-10--Gerald, a battered and neglected African-American child, is severely burned in a fire at the age of three, having b...More

Publishers Weekly : This stunning homage to fathers offers a textured potpourri of voices and visuals. Love, pain, respect, adoration and just plain ...More

Publisher's Weekly : A love of basketball isn't necessary to enjoy this gritty, feelingly told tale, but it would certainly help. Myers (The Glory Fi...More

Publisher's Weekly : This fictionalized account of Tubman's childhood on a Maryland plantation provides a cruel snapshot of life as a slave and the h...More

Publishers Weekly : Hamilton fans who have wondered what happened to Cammy Coleman after the death of her cousin Patty Ann will find the answer in th...More

School Library Journal : YA--Feelings's art speaks to the soul in this magnificent visual record of the Black Diaspora in the Americas. Clarke provid...More

Publishers Weekly : On a Virginia plantation in 1859, the slaves work hard to get the Big House ready for Christmas, and to prepare their own Quarter...More

School Library Journal : Gr 1-4-An earlier edition of Johnson's fine poem of the Harlem Renaissance failed to find illustrations to match its exc...More