Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld

As they fix up their new house, Herbie and his sister discover how many things that we use every day were designed by black inventors. Individual biographies accompany each invention.

3rd - 7th

Written by Kelly Starling Lyons

This book is about a young boy named Tosh who helps his aging grandmother remember the family...

K - 3rd

Written by Monica Edinger

Magulu is only nine years old when she is taken by slave traders and brought to the Americas. She...

5th - 7th

Written by Kelly Starling Lyons

Written to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation, this is the story of a little girl, her...

1st - 3rd

Written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can...

1st - 4th

Written by Bill Wise

This book tells the story of Louis Sockalexis, one of the first American Indian players in Major League Baseball.

Written by Lee Bennett Hopkins

This anthology presents American history through poems from a diverse group of writers.

K - 7th

Written by Doreen Rappaport

This story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told using his own “big words.”

K - 3rd

Written by Russell Freedman

A biography of Abraham Lincoln told in illustrations and photographs. The book spans Lincoln’s...

5th - 8th

Written by David Catrow

A discussion of the Preamble of the Constitution oriented to kids as a way to bring about...

K - 3rd

Written by Mildred D. Taylor

The story is about the Logan family, who live in Mississippi during the Depression. The family...

6th - 10th

Written by Heather Henson

In the 1930s, the Pack Horse Librarians traveled high up into the Appalachian Mountains to lend...

Pre-K - 3rd

Written by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The first in a series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder about pioneer life. The family of Ma, Pa,...

3rd - 7th

Written by Suzanne Slade

A biography of Susan B. Anthony who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the struggle to win women...

K - 4th

Written by Emily Arnold McCully

The year was 1880. The place was Tenafly, New Jersey. Cordelia lived next door to Elizabeth Cady...

Pre-K - 2nd

Written by David A. Adler

An introduction to the life and times of Eleanor Roosevelt told in words and pictures. Eleanor was...

1st - 4th

Written by Eloise Greenfield

An illustrated biography of Mary McLeod Bethune, the daughter of former slaves who wanted nothing...

1st - 5th

Written by David A. Adler

The story of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama...

1st - 4th

Written by Carole Boston Weatherford

There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not...

Pre-K - 3rd

Written by Robert Coles

The story of Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend an all-white school in New...

Pre-K - 3rd

Written by David A. Adler

An introduction to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from his childhood to his assassination....

Pre-K - 3rd

Written by Peter Golenbock

Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, becoming the first African American on a...

Pre-K - 3rd

Written by Faith Ringgold

This book weaves the history Harriet Tubman and her work with the Underground Railroad into a...

Pre-K - 2nd

Written by Judith St. George

In amusing and caricature-like illustrations, this book sketches the perks and annoyances of being...

2nd - 5th