African-American Books


Keeping the Night Watch Best Price: $6.49 Exquisitely crafted narrative poetry, this sequel to "The Way a Door Closes" details...	Bud, Not Buddy Best Price: $19.95 It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but...	Let the Circle Be Unbroken Best Price: $18.40 I rate this book 5 stars because it is a good tale of making and breaking friendships. I also...	Joe Joe in the City	Jordan's Hair Best Price: $4.58 Little Jordan has a problem. He loves to be with his friends at school, but his skin color and...



Stevie One day Robert's mother told him, 'You know you're gonna have a little friend come...	Uncle Remus Best Price: $32.95	My Choices Make Me Who I Am Best Price: $12.54 Vision Works children's books teach your little prized possessions many great and valuable...	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Best Price: $11.82 This was great! I learned a lot about baseball and the negro leagues. It's a great book...	Abby Takes a Stand: 1960 (Scraps of Time) Best Price: $13.99



Over the River and Through the Woods (Jats 8x8) From Thanksgiving to Kwanzaa with a little Christmas in between, these fun-to-read books are...	Hurricane Song Best Price: $15.99 When Miles?s mother remarries, Miles decides to move to New Orleans to be with his father. But...	The Buried Bones Mystery (Clubhouse Mysteries) Best Price: $2.15 In simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions, the first book in the Clubhouse Mysteries....	Locomotion Best Price: $25.10 When Lonnie Collins Motion was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now Lonnie is eleven...	Adventures of Roopster Roux, The: Surfing the Net (Roupster Roux Series) Best Price: $5.95 Running time: 15 minRoopster, his teammates, and the librarian are trapped in cyberspace by...

Hope (Carolrhoda Picture Books) Best Price: $64.95 This book is so amazing. I didn't remember what it was about when I was going to read it to...	Joe Louis, My Champion Best Price: $1.50 In 1937 Joe Louis becomes the heavyweight champion of the world. Sammy, the main character in...	Zora Hurston y Arbol Sonador (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $208.27 Zora?s father thinks she should wear dresses instead of overalls and leave tree climbing and...	Directo al Aro = Strong to the Hoop (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $7.95 Ten-year-old James has gone to the basketball court with his brother Nate many times, but one...	Addy's Story Collection - Limited Edition (The American Girls Collection) Best Price: $74.99 I grew up reading American Girl books and I was thrilled to find that all six books were...

Jip: His Story	Mister and Me Best Price: $1.99 What happens when a little girl tries to separate her mom from getting married. Mister and Me by...	My Man Blue THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A collection of poems describes...	My Dream Of Martin Luther King Illustrated in full color. The acclaimed author/illustrator of the Caldecott Honor Book Tar...	Under the Quilt of Night When night falls, and all is quiet, a slave girl starts to run. She follows the moon into the...

Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family The story of Minna, snatched as a child from her African village, sold to a plantation owner in...	It's a Breeze (Gullah Gullah Island) A sudden downpour threatens to ruin the gang's toy sailboat race--until Jamesand Vanessa...	Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today's Youth Rosa Parks, the woman who changed the course of history when she was arrested for refusing to...	From Miss Ida's Porch Miss Ida's porch is a telling place, where adults recall their past and the narrator and her...	African American Family Album

Over the River and Through the Woods (Jats 8x8) From Thanksgiving to Kwanzaa with a little Christmas in between, these fun-to-read books are...	Hurricane Song Best Price: $15.99 When Miles?s mother remarries, Miles decides to move to New Orleans to be with his father. But...	The Buried Bones Mystery (Clubhouse Mysteries) Best Price: $2.15 In simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions, the first book in the Clubhouse Mysteries....	Locomotion Best Price: $25.10 When Lonnie Collins Motion was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now Lonnie is eleven...	Adventures of Roopster Roux, The: Surfing the Net (Roupster Roux Series) Best Price: $5.95 Running time: 15 minRoopster, his teammates, and the librarian are trapped in cyberspace by...

Hope (Carolrhoda Picture Books) Best Price: $64.95 This book is so amazing. I didn't remember what it was about when I was going to read it to...	Joe Louis, My Champion Best Price: $1.50 In 1937 Joe Louis becomes the heavyweight champion of the world. Sammy, the main character in...	Zora Hurston y Arbol Sonador (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $208.27 Zora?s father thinks she should wear dresses instead of overalls and leave tree climbing and...	Directo al Aro = Strong to the Hoop (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $7.95 Ten-year-old James has gone to the basketball court with his brother Nate many times, but one...	Addy's Story Collection - Limited Edition (The American Girls Collection) Best Price: $74.99 I grew up reading American Girl books and I was thrilled to find that all six books were...

White Water Best Price: $8.99 For a young boy growing up in the segregated south, a town drinking fountain becomes the source...	Zora and Me Best Price: $3.75 One of the last paragrpahs in this book pretty much sums up the story: "The bad things...	So Much! Best Price: $3.06 This is one book that we don't mind reading over and over again. My two year old can't...	Ghetto Cowboy Best Price: $7.49 A street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right-the Cowboy Way.	An Island Christmas Best Price: $13.19 Rosie's preparations for Christmas on the island of Trinidad include picking red petals for...

Down in the Piney Woods FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Based on the author's childhood in the 1950s, this...	Jump at the Sun: All Things Bright and Beautiful - Holiday Classics (Jump at the Sun Holiday Classics) Best Price: $0.40 This is a great book that gives children of color self esteem. I grew up with this book, but it...	Black Cowboy, Wild Horses Best Price: $8.95 This book is based on a true story about Bob Lemmons, a African American Cowboy. The pictures...	Bronx Masquerade (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) Best Price: $3.49 This is the first book of Nikki Grimes' that I have ever read and I loved it. "Bronx...	Keena Ford and the Secret Journal Mix-Up Best Price: $5.37 I liked the third book in this series as much as I did the first installment. It centers around...

Gifts of Kwanzaa Best Price: $33.00 "Saint James' clear, accessible introduction to Kwanzaa includes explanations of the...	Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African-American Tales of the Supernatural Best Price: $8.99 As a former teacher of upper elementary and middle school students with many years experience, I...	Bigmama's Best Price: $6.70 When the train arrived in Cottondale, the summer at Bigmama's house in Florida began. Donald...	Seaward Born Best Price: $8.31 Michael, born a slave in Charleston, wishes more than anything to be able to work on the docks,...	Fires of Jubilee (Aladdin Historical Fiction) Best Price: $1.50 The story of a young slave girl, who was left to be raised by her grandmother, wants to find her...

The Evening Star (Deluxe Coloring Book)(DIsney's The Princess and the Frog) Best Price: $1.24 Ordered this cookbook because our child loves to help us cook, loves Princess Tiana and the...	Kiss the Frog (Disney Princess and the Frog) (Step into Reading) Best Price: $10.92 Walt Disney Pictures presents The Princess and the Frog . . . . Meet Tiana, Disney's...	Big Friend, Little Friend (Disney Princess) (Step into Reading) Best Price: $0.99 Join Princess Tiana, Prince Naveen, and the rest of the characters from Disney?s The Princess...	Iggie's House When a black family with three children moves into the white neighborhood, eleven-year-old...	Raven in a Dove House Best Price: $8.36 I found this book in a discount bin and can't for the life of me figure out why. This is...

White Lilacs Best Price: $0.01 Being the person I am, it is not easy to make me cry. I am just naturally happy. It gets...	Fingers, Nose, and Toes (Shaped Little Nugget Book) Best Price: $15.00	President of the Whole Fifth Grade Best Price: $4.99 Start counting your votes . . . and your friends. When Brianna Justice's hero, the...	Because You're Lucky Best Price: $10.95 Irene Small has written a host of children's stories on various topics. In BECAUSE...	The Baby on the Way Best Price: $6.82 This is a beautiful picture book featuring a black family living in a city. Jamal, a pre-tween...

Sunday Is for God Best Price: $1.96 SUNDAY IS FOR GOD was nominated for the 2011 Rodda Book Award sponsored by the Church and...	The People Could Fly Picture Book and CD Best Price: $17.55 LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist...	Timothy of the Cay Best Price: $1.12 Timothy of the Cay is a prequel-sequel of The Cay, both written by Theodore Taylor. To...	My Name Is Not Angelica Best Price: $2.97 The book My Name Is Not Angelica by Scott O'Dell is an intriguing guide through the slavery...	Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop This book made the 2005 National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Book for Young...

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Best Price: $0.65 My daugher is six, and although she can read, I found this to be an excellent book to read to...	Marching to Freedom (Dell Yearling Biography) Best Price: $3.29 With its vivid historical detail and a fourth-grade readability level, Marching To Freedom tells...	Sophia Scrooby Preserved Best Price: $112.01 I came across this delightful and one-of-a-kind young person's novel on a book stall in...	Shoelaces (Rookie Readers: Level B) An African American girl describes the joys of all different kinds of shoelaces.	Dear America: With the Might of Angels - Audio Library Edition Best Price: $25.87 Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America...

Cassie's Word Quilt Best Price: $3.42 "Cassie's Word Quilt" provides an introduction to the well-loved world created by...	Uncle Jed's barbershop Best Price: $2.59 As the only black barber in a county of sharecroppers during the 1920s, Uncle Jed traveled for...	Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That! (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) Best Price: $10.71 Boasting two Caldecott Medals, the Society of Guild Illustrators' Gold Medal, three Coretta...	Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Best Price: $37.45 As an elementary school librarian I liked this book because it can be read and appreciated by...	I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 (Dear America Series) Best Price: $1.73 I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly is a book by Joyce Hansen. It is a diary of a young girl...

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Best Price: $0.75 "The vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other and their land give them...	Even Ground Best Price: $6.23 Olivia Dominoe is a 9-year-old African American girl coping with and drawing strength from a...	Follow the Drinking Gourd	Tar Beach	Masai and I

At the Plate With ... Mo Vaughn	The Stories Huey Tells	A Sweet Smell of Roses Best Price: $14.35 There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down...	Mayfield Crossing Best Price: $54.32 Mrs. Nelson's book won the Georgia Book Award Nominee for grades 4-8 books a few years back....	Ola Shakes It Up Moving? When Ola Benson's family leaves Roxbury in Boston to a house in the suburbs, Ola is...

A Thousand Never Evers Best Price: $6.95 IN KUCKACHOO, MISSISSIPPI, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and follows in his...	Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) Best Price: $0.83 You should be warned, this book has the "N" word in it. I'm sure this was prove a...	The Stories Julian Tells Best Price: $1.69 I teach third grade and just read "The Stories Julian Tells" to my students as a...	The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 (My Name is America) Best Price: $3.25 1948 Birmingham,Alabama Biddy is in the Negro Leagues with the Black Barons.Biddy was mostly the...	The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro leagues (My Name is America) I really like the book The Journal of Biddy Owens. It was about a boy from Birmingham Alabama at...

Just For You!: I Can't Take a Bath! Best Price: $1.21 My daughter is only two but she asks me to read this book to her nearly every night! I get sick...	Just For You! Shop Talk Best Price: $1.48 As a volunteer reading tutor of struggling second-graders, I'm always on the lookout for...	Sallie Gal And The Wall-a-kee Man Best Price: $82.72 Sheila P. Moses' SALLIE GAL AND THE WALL-A-KEE MAN tells of Sallie, who wants some hair...

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