By: Patricia A. Keeler

"This joyful picture book uses watercolor-and-pencil artwork to show African dances from all over the continent and kids 'coming from Brooklyn, coming from Harlem, the Bronx and down the subway lines' to learn them at the Harlem's Batoto Yetu dance stu

By: Kadir Nelson

"This picture-book biography matches Mandela's outsize achievements with large, powerful images, resulting in a presentation that will seize and hold readers' attention…Nelson's paintings range from poignant, when Mandela's mother tells him good-bye as

By: Nick Lake
Product Description: This is the story of "Shorty" — a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate.
By: Jerdine Nolen
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"Thunder Rose is an African-American child born on a stormy night abuzz with booming thunder, flashing lightning, and hailing rain.
By: Ntozake Shange
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"Unflinching verse and elegant imagery combine in a powerful, evocative, picture-book portrait of Coretta Scott King.

Diverse kids in a park
By: W. Nikola-Lisa
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Product Description: On a beautiful sunny day, an African American girl visits the park and rounds up a group of her friends for an afternoon of fun and playground games.

By: William Miller
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Product Description: Richard Wright and the Library Card shares a poignant turning point in the life of a young man who became one of this country's most brilliant writers, the author of Native Son and Black Boy.

By: Sharon Bell Mathis
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Product Description: Ray Charles and his soulful, passionate rhythms and melodies have been embraced around the world for decades.

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