2021

Homecoming Homecoming is a children's book that celebrates the HBCU Homecoming experience. Join this family as they head back to the yard to enjoy Homecoming festivities such as a football game, greek life, and a marching band. Buy Now by La-Donia Alford-Jefferies Reading age: 4 - 7 years Print length: 26 pages Language: English ISBN-13: [...]

The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists, 2)As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered―brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for [...]

Black Sands, the Seven Kingdoms, Volume 2Black Sands continues with the latest chapters in Ausar's journey. He leaves the safety of his home to venture across the seas where a war is about to break out between Sparta and Minoa. If that wasn't enough, there are also ancient beasts prowling about. In this world, a [...]

Stephen Curry: The Boy Who Never Gave Up The Boy Who Never Gave Up is the inspiring true story of NBA superstar Stephen Curry. This fully illustrated picture book biography tells the story of a young boy who many said was too short to play in high school, too weak to play in college and [...]

HBCU Proud Written by an HBCU graduate and educator, this story will be sure to expose children to the wonders of an HBCU through a realistic fiction experience, through the lens of the child. Aunt Tru had done it again. She managed to talk her nephew's parents into taking him on vacation for Spring Break [...]

Your Name is a Song Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk [...]

I Am Every Good Thing I am a nonstop ball of energy. Powerful and full of light. I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He’s got big plans, and no doubt he’ll see them through–as he’s [...]

Kissed by the SunKissed By the Sun depicts the life of a little girl who struggles with her dark complexion until one of her teachers helps her recognize she is "kissed by the sun". It is a powerful book that helps us all embrace who we are. Buy Now by Kenneth VaughanReading age: 3 - [...]

Sulwe from Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colourism, self-esteem and learning that true beauty comes from within. Sulwe's skin is the colour of midnight. She's darker than everyone in her family, and everyone at school. All she wants is to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and [...]

The Supa Dupa KidThe Supadupa Kid is unlike any book my child has read before. It's a graphic novel for kids that's fun and witty. In my house, it's a story-time favorite. --Eddie Taylor, Western MA HOW REFRESHING! This book spoke to my daughter like few books have done before. It was upbeat and modern [...]