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Black History Month Children's Literature

This list contains 14 titles

A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis / by Matt de la PenÌa ; pictures by Kadir Nelson. by
Publication details: New York : Dial Books for young readers, c2011
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ9.4 .L68 P46 2011.
Corduroy / story and pictures by Don Freeman. by
Edition: Special ed.
Publication details: New York : Viking, 2008
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ7 .F8747 CO 2008.
Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave / by Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Bryan Collier. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication details: New York : Little, Brown, 2010
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ7 .H55 DA 2010.
Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird / Misty Copeland ; illustrated by Christopher Myers. by Publisher: New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014]
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ7 .C7887 FIR 2014.
Freedom over me : eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life / by Ashley Bryan.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ7 .B82887 FR 2016.
Harlem : a poem / by Walter Dean Myers ; pictures by Christopher Myers. by
Publication details: New York : Scholastic Press, c1997
Availability: No items available.
Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman. by Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ10.13 .S54 2018.
Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication details: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2006
Other title:
  • When Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ9.4 .T83 W43 2006.
My people / Langston Hughes ; photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication details: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ginee seo books, 2009
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ8.5 .H844 MY 2009.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison. by
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020]
Other title:
  • Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul.
  • Respect.
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ9.4 .F73 W43 2020.
Rosa / Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by Bryan Collier. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication details: New York : Henry Holt, 2005
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ9.4 .P37 G43923 2005.
The blacker the berry : poems / by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper. by
Publication details: New York : HarperCollins, 2008
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ8.5 .T466 BL 2008.
The undefeated / by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson. by Publisher: Boston : Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
Availability: Items available for loan: NMC Library (1)Call number: PZ9.1 .A36 A64 2019.
When Marian sang : the true recital of Marian Anderson / libretto [i.e. text] by Pam MunÌoz Ryan ; staging [i.e. illustrations] by Brian Selznick. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication details: New York : Scholastic Press, 2002
Availability: No items available.

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