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  • Ghost Boys

    A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Woke

    A Young Poet's Call to Justice

    **"This collection of poems by women of color covers topics relating to social justice, activism, discrimination and empathy, focusing on the need to speak out and inspiring middle-graders." -VogueWoke: A Young Poet's Guide to Justice is a collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists.**Historically poets have been on the forefront of social movements. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Abeni's Song

    Series Book 1 - Abeni's Song
    IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO.Abeni's Song by award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark is the enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade readers about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save.“Lush and magical.” —KWAME MBALIA • “Astonishing.” —MARK OSHIRO • ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Amari and the Night Brothers

    by B. B. Alston ...
    Series Book 1 - Supernatural Investigations
    New York Times bestseller!Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a series filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)

    A 2021 Coretta Scott King Honor Book!Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature!Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry!In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself.FOUR STARRED REVIEWS!Bookli... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • New Kid

    A Newbery Award Winner

    by Jerry Craft ...
    Illustrated by Jerry Craft ...
    Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature!Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • March Book 1

    Illustrated by Nate Powell ...
    Series Book 1 - March
    Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecroppers farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Every Leaf a Hallelujah

    by Ben Okri ...
    **The Guardian: Best Children's and YA Book of the YearAn environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road.**Mangoshi lives with her mom and dad in a village near the forest. When her mom becomes ill, Mangoshi knows only one thing can help her—a special flower that grows deep in the forest.The little ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • As Brave As You

    Kirkus Award FinalistSchneider Family Book Award WinnerCoretta Scott King Author Honor BookIn this “pitch-perfect contemporary novel” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds explores multigenerational ideas about family love and bravery in the story of two brothers, their blind grandfather, and a dangerous rite of passage.... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Truths We Hold

    An American Journey (Young Readers Edition)

    by Kamala Harris ...
    Adapted for young readers, Vice President Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life.With her Democratic presidential nomination, her election to the vice presidency, her election to the U.S. Senate, and her position as attorney general of California, Kamala Harris has blazed trails throughout her entire political career. But how did she achieve her ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • March: Book Two

    After the success of the Nashville sit-in movement, John Lewis’ commitment to change through nonviolence is stronger than ever — but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the movement’s young activists place their lives on the line ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Donavan's Word Jar

    Illustrated by Cheryl Hanna ...
    The classic story about the power of words.Donavan Allen doesn’t collect coins, comics, or trading cards like most kids. He collects words—big words, little words, soft words, and silly words. Whenever Donavan finds a new word, he writes it on a slip of paper and puts it in his word jar.But one day, Donavan discovers that his word jar is full. He can’t put any new words in without taking some of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • I Have a Dream: Read & Listen Edition

    Illustrated by Kadir Nelson ...
    On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nation's history. Now read and listen to his words, narrated with the audio recordings from his speech, paired with Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson's magnificent paintings, in this picture book certain to be treasured by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Aesop's Fables: A Magic Beans Story

    A singing ant, a silly wolf and a mighty mouse are just some of the characters in this mini collection of everyone's favourite fables. After all, it's never too late to learn a new moral or two!This story is a magic bean. It may not look much like a bean, but I can promise you that it is. For if you plant it in a young mind, it will grow into a love of story and reading. These beans are favourite ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • You Can Fly

    The Tuskegee Airmen

    In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), ALSC Children’s Literature Legacy Award–winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen.I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you’re a young black man in 1940, he doesn’t want you in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dork Diaries 3

    Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star

    Illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Series series Dork Diaries
    Nikki Maxwell enters a talent competition in this third installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!Nikki Maxwell has been doing everything she can to keep everyone at school from learning the truth—that she’s there on scholarship in exchange for her Dad working as the school’s exterminator. When a major talent competition is announced with a school scholarship offered as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award WinnerJacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone*, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.*Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dork Diaries 3 1/2

    How to Dork Your Diary

    Illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Series series Dork Diaries
    Create your own Dork Diary with this special, interactive addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!Nikki Maxwell can’t believe it when one morning she can’t find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, Nikki can’t help putting together a list of important diary-keeping lessons to remember in case of missing diary emergencies like this one.How to Dork Your Diary is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ghost

    Series series Track
    A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s LiteratureNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadGhost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Trackseries from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds.Ghost. Lu. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Good Kind of Trouble

    From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what’s right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds.**Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Volume 1)

    by Kwame Mbalia ...
    Series series Tristan Strong Novel, A
    Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Hidden Figures

    Illustrated by Laura Freeman ...
    Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Marvellers

    Illustrated by Khadijah Khatib ...
    Series Book 1 - The Conjureverse Series
    Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky **—**an instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller!"The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world." —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling–authorEleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Ins ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dork Diaries 3 (Enhanced eBook edition)

    Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star

    Illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Series series Dork Diaries
    Nikki Maxwell enters a talent competition in this third installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Enhance your Dork Diaries experience with this special ebook edition featuring animated illustrations!Nikki Maxwell has been doing everything she can to keep everyone at school from learning the truth—that she’s there on scholarship in exchange for her Dad working as the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD