My Block Looks Like, by Janelle Harper and Frank Morrison, is a love letter to city and the people who live in it.
Browsing: Black experience
A girl notices how her inner glow changes in certain situations and learns how to harness it in The Light She Feel Inside.
A young filmmaker’s eyes are opened to racial injustice following a senseless act of violence in The Reckoning, by Wade Hudson.
Three girls create the ultimate hair-braiding business in The Braid Girls, a middle-grade contemporary novel by Sherri Winston.
A boy learns life lessons while learning to play chess in Not an Easy Win, a middle-grade novel by Chrystal D. Giles.
Jason Reynolds pays homage to the Word King Langston Hughes in his debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston.
Carole Boston Weatherford and her son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, craft a portrait of a Black family tree in Kin: Rooted in Hope.
A boy mourning the loss of his father takes a walk in the woods and makes a life-changing discovery in A Walk in the Woods, by Nikki Grimes, Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney.
A young boy realizes his greatness in I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams, written by Tanisia Moore and illustrated by Robert Paul.
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new young adult novel, For Lamb, explores an interracial friendship between two girls in the Jim Crow South.