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This is an #OwnVoices list for Black History Month featuring stories of historical fiction, fiction, biography, and more about prominent people, movements, and eras outlined in Black history. We hope these books inspire learning and reflection.

Picture Books

Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson

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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman

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Trombone Shorty by Bryan Collier

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Memphis, Martin and the Mountaintop: the Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie

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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko and Sean Qualls

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Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton and Raul Colon

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Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson and Frank Morrison

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford and Kadir Nelson

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Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie

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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson

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One Million Men and Me by Kelly Starling Lyons and Peter Ambush

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Josephine: the Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison

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The ABC’s of Black History by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer

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Exquisite: the Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade and Cozbi A. Cabrera

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All Around Town: the photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts by Dinah Johnson

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Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! by Andrea J. Loney and Keith Mallett

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The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by Lesa Cline-Ransome and John Parra

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Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy and Ekua Holmes

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Middle Grade

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

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My Life as An Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi

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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

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Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander

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Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson

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Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper

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A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield

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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beals

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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician by Katherine G. Johnson

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This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges

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YA

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

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March, Book One by John Lewis

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Monster by Walter Dean Myers

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynold, Ibram X. Kendi

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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden

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Say Her Name by Zetta Elliot, Channie Waites

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Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam

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X: A Novel by Ilyasha Shabazz and Kekla Magoon

Kindred (Graphic Novel) by Octavia Butler

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If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

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How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson

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Dear Justyce by Nic Stone

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Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair

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Black Boy White School by Brain F. Walker

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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