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Updated 6/3/20

Warriors Don't Cry Cover Image

Warriors Don't Cry (Abridged / Mass Market)

By Melba Pattillo Beals
$7.99
ISBN: 9781416948827
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Published: Simon Pulse - July 24th, 2007
The Book of Awesome Black Americans: Scientific Pioneers, Trailblazing Entrepreneurs, Barrier-Breaking Activists and Afro-Futurists (African-American Cover Image

The Book of Awesome Black Americans: Scientific Pioneers, Trailblazing Entrepreneurs, Barrier-Breaking Activists and Afro-Futurists (African-American (Paperback)

By Monique L. Jones
$16.95
ISBN: 9781642501476
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Published: Mango - January 14th, 2020
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic Focus) Cover Image

Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic Focus) (Paperback)

By Walter Dean Myers
$9.99
ISBN: 9781338309850
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Published: Scholastic Nonfiction - December 26th, 2019
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success Cover Image

We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success (Paperback)

By Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Sharon Draper
$7.99
ISBN: 9780142406274
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Published: Puffin Books - April 20th, 2006
Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens (Teen and YA Self-Esteem, for Readers of All Boys Aren´t Blue) Cover Image

Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens (Teen and YA Self-Esteem, for Readers of All Boys Aren´t Blue) (Paperback)

By M. J. Fievre
$16.95
ISBN: 9781642501728
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Published: Mango - January 14th, 2020
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults) Cover Image

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults) (Hardcover)

By Michael Bennett, Dave Zirin
$18.99
ISBN: 9781642590227
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Published: Haymarket Books - September 3rd, 2019
Obviously: Stories from My Timeline Cover Image

Obviously: Stories from My Timeline (Hardcover)

By Akilah Hughes
$17.99
ISBN: 9781101998908
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Published: Razorbill - September 24th, 2019
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality Cover Image

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality (Hardcover)

By Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy
$17.99
ISBN: 9781681198521
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Published: Bloomsbury Children's Books - January 8th, 2019
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) Cover Image

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) (Hardcover)

By Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tonya Bolden
$19.99
ISBN: 9781338262049
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Published: Scholastic Nonfiction - January 29th, 2019
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) Cover Image

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) (Hardcover)

By Trevor Noah
$17.99
ISBN: 9780525582168
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers - April 9th, 2019
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) Cover Image

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) (Paperback)

By Trevor Noah
$8.99
ISBN: 9780525582199
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Published: Yearling - April 7th, 2020
Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) Cover Image

Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) (Hardcover)

By Sharon Robinson
$16.99
ISBN: 9781338282801
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Published: Scholastic Press - September 3rd, 2019
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice Cover Image

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$10.99
ISBN: 9780525580065
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Published: Ember - September 10th, 2019
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice Cover Image

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Hardcover)

By Bryan Stevenson
$18.99
ISBN: 9780525580034
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Published: Delacorte Press - September 18th, 2018
Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice Cover Image

Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$10.99
ISBN: 9780593177044
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Published: Ember - December 3rd, 2019
A Black Woman Did That Cover Image

A Black Woman Did That (Paperback)

By Malaika Adero, Chanté Timothy (Illustrator)
$11.99
ISBN: 9781941367513
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Published: Downtown Bookworks - February 18th, 2020
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History Cover Image

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History (Hardcover)

By Vashti Harrison, Kwesi Johnson (With)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316475143
Availability: Backordered
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - November 19th, 2019
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) Cover Image

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) (Hardcover)

By Vashti Harrison
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316475112
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - December 5th, 2017
The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World Cover Image

The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World (Hardcover)

By Robert Ball (Illustrator), The Staff of The Undefeated
$17.99
ISBN: 9781328940629
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Published: HMH Books for Young Readers - December 24th, 2019
Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World Cover Image

Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World (Hardcover)

By Cheryl Hudson, Erin K. Robinson (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780525645818
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Published: Crown Books for Young Readers - January 7th, 2020
What Were the Negro Leagues? (What Was?) Cover Image

What Were the Negro Leagues? (What Was?) (Paperback)

By Varian Johnson, Who HQ, Stephen Marchesi (Illustrator)
$5.99
ISBN: 9781524789985
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Published: Penguin Workshop - December 24th, 2019
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Cover Image

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (Hardcover)

By Claire Hartfield
$18.99
ISBN: 9780544785137
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Published: Clarion Books - January 2nd, 2018
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace Cover Image

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace (Hardcover)

By Ashley Bryan, Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
$21.99
ISBN: 9781534404908
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Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - October 15th, 2019
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read Cover Image

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Hardcover)

By Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Oge Mora (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781524768287
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Published: Schwartz & Wade - January 7th, 2020
M Is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child Cover Image

M Is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child (Hardcover)

By Tiffany Rose
$17.99
ISBN: 9781499809169
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Published: little bee books - October 1st, 2019
Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story Cover Image

Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story (Hardcover)

By Sharon Langley, Amy Nathan, Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781419736858
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - January 7th, 2020
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne Cover Image

The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne (Hardcover)

By Lesa Cline-Ransome, John Parra (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781481462891
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Published: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books - January 14th, 2020
Thurgood Cover Image

Thurgood (Hardcover)

By Jonah Winter, Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781524765330
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Published: Schwartz & Wade - September 3rd, 2019
The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives Cover Image

The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives (Hardcover)

By Eloise Greenfield, Daniel Minter (Illustrator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780997772074
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Published: Alazar Press - September 1st, 2019