Children & Young Adult

In 1946, six-year-old Wilma Rudolph dreamed of walking and playing like other children, but a sickness called polio had damaged her left leg. Wilma spent hours each week doing painful exercises at a hospital for African American patients. The rest of the...

Willie O'Ree made NHL history on January 18, 1958, when he became the first Black player to take to the ice. There was a round of applause when O'Ree stepped onto the ice, and newspapers ran the story. The color barrier in the NHL had been broken, yet it...

From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Railroad. Essential for black history collections.★ "Brings deserved attention to the life...

In this Level 2 Ready-to-Read storybook, a mother and son team up to defeat a local monster. In this adaptation of a Southern folktale, a large and frightening creature who lives in the swamp threatens anyone who enters his home. But one young boy is not...

Take a captivating journey across the continent of Africa to view the incredible array of plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide in Africa�s distinct habitats. Stunning photographs take you along the shifting sands of the Sahara, across the...

Take a captivating journey across the continent of Africa to view the incredible array of plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide in Africa�s distinct habitats. Stunning photographs take you along the shifting sands of the Sahara, across the...

Beverly Hills Book Awards Winner 2018 for Social/Political Change and Northeast Regional Fiction!Independent Press Award Winner 2018 for Debut Fiction! Peter S. Rush brings the '70s to vivid life in his stunning debut novel Set against the backdrop of...

From NFL superstars Tiki and Ronde Barber, a story of teamwork and determination--in the classroom as well as on the field. The eighth-grade season couldn't be going better for the Barbers' team, the Hidden Valley Egales. Everything is off to a strong...

Karima is a thirteen-year-old with a voice like a sparrow. She is asked to lend her talents to a school program celebrating Transfer Day, a historical day in the United States Virgin Islands. Karima doesn't want to sing and thinks the holiday is not very...

Sun and his wife, the moon, lived on Earth and built a large house so that the water people could visit. But so many poured in that they were forced to move to the sky.

This book tells the story of why the spider has long legs, a traditional African folk tale. In it, Anansi the spider learns that you usually have to work to get the things that you want, and that it is never a good idea to be too greedy!

The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.

In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. Elegance has become the Dillons' hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema's uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . An impressive showpiece.-Booklist, starred review...

When two new girls show up at Central, some of the class is convinced that one of them was really adopted. How can the class solve this new mystery? This story was inspired by the April 2018 issue of National Geographic, about the twins Millie & Marcia...

When two new girls show up at Central, some of the class is convinced that one of them was really adopted. How can the class solve this new mystery? This story was inspired by the April 2018 issue of National Geographic, about the twins Millie & Marcia...

Celebrate the inventor of the Super Soaker in this inspiring picture book biography about Lonnie Johnson, the maker behind one of the world's favorite toys. You know the Super Soaker. It's one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented...