Children & Young Adult

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and facts, as she navigates grief and loss at a moment when life as she knows it changes forever.Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically...

An inspiring picture book from Scripps National Spelling Bee champ Zaila Avant-garde, filled with her favorite motivational words from Z to A. Perfect for your little book lover and spelling ace! When 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black...

Dive into this revealing portrait of Stranger Things fan-favorite Lucas Sinclair and get to know Lucas like never before! Lucas's guide for surviving freshman year: make new friends, be yourself . . . and save Hawkins. Lucas Sinclair is tired of feeling...

From the critically acclaimed author of When You Look Like Us comes a page-turning YA contemporary novel about what happens when the latest "Becky" on the internet is your best friend. A lot is up in the air in Naomi Henry's life: her spot as a varsity...

Slavery from Africa to the Americas charts the history of 24 million people taken from their homes in West Africa by force, and their journey across the Atlantic Ocean to start their new lives in the Americas. It also looks at their constant fight...

Taking a stand and being an activist means having the courage to speak up for an important cause. For football player Colin Kaepernick and basketball great LeBron James, fighting for social justice is their top priority. Learn how they and other players...

Sixteen-year-old Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country. There's absolutely nothing for Ebony in Alula Lake, Texas. So she thinks.Award-winning author Liara Tamani's What She Missed is a...

Lisa Harrison can't believe her luck when she lands an internship with The Rage, New York's hottest music magazine. She's even more amazed when she's assigned to shadow the magazine's star reporter. It's a fantastic break, but things get complicated fast...

Beth didn't think that the song she posted on YouTube would be noticed by more than a few classmates at Clinton High. She was wrong. Harmon Holt noticed, and now she's an intern at his Bonified Records company--a label with a reputation for megahits. Can...

Jason can't believe his luck when he opens the letter from his high school's wealthy alum Harmon Holt telling him he'll be interning on a movie set in LA. Even better, it's with one of his favorite horror-movie directors. But it turns out the road to the...

Book 2 of the Soul of Harmony series. After narrowly escaping with their lives with the magical mouthpiece from Demonica Shadows and her Minions of Darkness, Harmony, Eazy, and Juan Carlos find refuge in the attic of small bakery owned by a sweet,...

Magic Hair is about an 8 year old African American girl named Nia who is frustrated with her thick, curly hair. Her mother, wanting Nia to love herself and her hair, teaches her daughter about all the magical things that her beautiful hair can do. She...

Inspired by an activist's countless experiences at protests with her child, this social justice children's book is an empowering introduction to activism for kids-- teaching young readers the power of protest, community, and many voices coming together...

Daddy, How Do I?The relationship between a father and daughter is special and unbreakable. The pinky-promise-close bond between Matt and Maya Bradford is on display as they introduce the first in their series of children's books called, "Daddy, How Do...

The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time...

Jembe says, "Hi", then gives Sam, who's had a rough day, an introduction to the Djembe. All he wanted to do is hit the drum. But he gets a lesson on the music instrument's West African origin, what it is made of, the people who invited it, and more...