Elementary (Grades PreK-3)
- A Bus of Our Own, by Freddi Williams Evans
- Africa Dream, Eloise Greenfield
- Allie’s Basketball Dream, Barbara E. Barber
- Almost to Freedom, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
- Ananse’s Feast : An Ashanti Tale, Tololwa M. Mollel
- Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry, Ashley Bryan
- Before John Was a Jazz Giant, Carole Boston Weatherford
- Big boy, Tololwa M. Mollel
- Big Mama’s, Donald Crews
- Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin Cowboy, Andrea Pinkney & Brian Pinkney
- Bright Eyes, Brown Skin, Cheryl Hudson & Bernette Ford
- Dia’s Story Cloth, Dia Cha
- Drylongso, Virginia Hamilton
- Dume’s Roar, Tololwa M. Mollel
- Everett Anderson’s Good-bye, Lucille Clifton
- Gettin’ Through Thursday, by Melrose Cooper
- Goin’ Someplace Special, by Patricia C. McKissack
- Grandpa’s Face, Eloise Greenfield
- Honey, I Love, Eloise Greenfield
- I Am Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks & James Haskins
- I Dream of Trains, Angela Johnson
- I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Walter Dean Myers
- In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- Kitoto The Mighty, Tololwa M. Mollel
- Let It Shine, Ashley Bryan
- Mama’s Window, Lynn Rubright
- Mary McLeod Bethune, Eloise Greenfield
- My Rows And Piles Of Coins, Tololwa M. Mollel
- Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, Karen English
- Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales, Nelson Mandela
- Our Gracie Aunt, Jacqueline Woodson
- Running the Road to ABC, Denize Lauture
- Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, Bebe Moore Campbell
- Subira Subira, Tololwa M. Mollel
- The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Langston Hughes & Brian Pinkney
- The Hard-Times Jar, by Ethel Footman Smothers
- The Orphan Boy : A Maasai Story, Tololwa M. Mollel
- The Other Side, Jacqueline Woodson
- The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, Gregorie Christie
- The Patchwork Quilt, Valerie Flournoy
- Thunder Rose, Jerdine Nolen
- Uptown, Bryan Collier
- Visiting Day, Jacqueline Woodson
- Visiting Langston, Bryan Collier
Elementary (Grades 4-5)
- A Little Love, Virginia Hamilton
- Aida, Leontyne Price
- Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, R. Gregory Christie
- Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Ellington Was Not a Street, Ntozake Shange & Kadir Nelson
- Harlem, Walter Dean Myers
- I Have Heard of a Land, Joyce Carol Thomas
- Maritcha, Tonya Bolden
- Meet Danitra Brown, Nikki Grimes
- Mirandy and Brother Wind, Patricia McKissack
- Nathaniel Talking, Eloise Greenfield
- Night on the Neighborhood Street, Eloise Greenfield
- Rainbow Jordan, Alice Childress
- Something on My Mind, Nikki Grimes
- Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, Nikki Grimes
- The Bat Boy and His Violin, Gavin Curtis
- The Great Migration: An American Story, Jacob Lawrence
- The Hunterman and the Crocodile, Baba Waguè Diakitè
- The Road to Memphis, Mildred Taylor
- The Singing Man, Angela Shelf Medearis
- The Strange New Feeling, Julius Lester
- Under the Sunday Tree, Eloise Greenfield
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
- A Thief in the Village and Other Stories, James Berry
- Eighth-Grade Superzero, Olugbemiosola Rhuday-Perkovich
- Andrew Young: Young Man With a Mission, James Haskins
- Another Way to Dance, Martha Southgate
- Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement, James Haskins
- Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African American Whalers, Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
- Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
- Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
- Dark Sons, Nikki Grimes
- Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
- Days of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, Julius Lester
- Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis
- Forged by Fire, Sharon M. Draper
- Francie, Karen English
- Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Ben Carson
- Heaven, Angela Johnson
- I See the Rhythm, Toyomi Igus
- Junius Over Far, Virginia Hamilton
- Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, Mildred Pitts Walter
- Keeping the Night Watch, Hope Anita Smith
- Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred D. Taylor
- Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
- Maizon at Blue Hill, Jacqueline Woodson
- Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, Tonya Bolden
- Miracle’s Boys, Jacqueline Woodson
- Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom, Walter Dean Myers
- Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
- Soujourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, Virginia Hamilton
- The Battle of Jericho, Sharon Draper
- The Land, Mildred Taylor
- The Legend of Buddy Bush, Sheila P. Moses
- The Other Side: Shorter Poems, Angela Johnson
- The Road to Paris, Nikki Grimes
- The Skin I’m In, Sharon Flake
- The Way a Door Closes, Hope Anita Smith
- The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King
- Toning the Sweep, Angela Johnson
- Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali – Charles R. Smith, Jr.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
- We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Kadir Nelson
High School (Grades 9-12)
- Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, Virginia Hamilton
- Barbara Jordan, James Haskins
- Becoming Billie Holiday, Carole Boston Weatherford
- Benjamin Banneker, Lillie Patterson
- Carver: A Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson
- Copper Sun, Sharon Draper
- Coretta Scott King, Lillie Patterson
- Cornrows, Camille Yarborough
- Darkness Before Dawn, Sharon Draper
- Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday, Alexis De Veaux
- Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
- Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem, Marilyn Nelson
- I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told, Alfred Duckett
- James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man, James Haskins
- Just Another Hero, Sharon M. Draper
- Lena Horne, James Haskins
- Let the Lion Eat Straw, Ellease Southerland
- Lou in the Limelight, Kristin Hunter
- Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, Walter Dean Myers
- Mississippi Challenge, Mildred Pitts Walter
- Monster, Walter Dean Myers
- Movin’ Up, Berry Gordy
- My Chill Wind, Janet McDonald
- Remember: The Journey to School Integration, Toni Morrison
- The First Part Last, Angela Johnson
- The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl, Virginia Hamilton, Lena Horne, James Haskins
- The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo, Tom Feelings
- The Story of Stevie Wonder, James Haskins
- The Young Landlords, Walter Dean Myers
- This Life, Sidney Poitier
- We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Led to Success, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt and Sharon Draper
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