African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491422182Author Allison Crotzer KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

The impressive life story of Muhammad Ali is interwoven with vital moments in American history in this visually stunning, full-colour biography. The story of famed boxing champion Muhammad Ali is more appealing and accessible than ever before when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780064434553Author Walter Dean MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 223mm...

Take a trip around the world in this fascinating lift-the-flap book. With over 80 flaps to lift, intrepid explorers can discover our world, from the layers that make up planet Earth to the tiniest insects in the rainforest and the creatures who live at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681199559Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bloomsbury Childrens BooksPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Surprisingly, kids were some of the key instigators in the Civil Rights Movement, like Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and...

The true story of how a ride on a carousel made a powerful Civil Rights statement A Ride to Remember tells how a community came together-both black and white-to make a change. When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks...

From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow South. Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479597888Author Jomike TejidoFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Picture Window BooksPublisher Picture Window BooksWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823435685Author Russell FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Holiday House IncPublisher Holiday House IncWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

To one young narrator, it's the simple things that mean the most, like sharing laughter with a friend, taking family rides in the country, and kissing her mama's arm. When this poem was first published in 1978 in Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886874501Author Kate MoeningFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint TorquePublisher Bellwether MediaWeight(grams) 230g

"A compelling account. A perfect blend of well-written text and well-executed illustrations." (School Library Journal starred review)Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers, together with illustrator Leonard Jenkins, delivers a compelling portrayal of one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419767784Author Jamia WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Magic CatPublisher Magic CatWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 216mm * 18mm

Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years...

The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These children, however, would rise up against the culture that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award for Young People's Literature 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780451481559Author Evette DionneFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Viking...

This "detailed, fascinating" (Booklist, starred review) nonfiction middle grade book explores a deeply troubling chapter in American history that is still playing out today: the strange case of Prince Edward County, Virginia, the only place in the United...

This Coretta Scott King Honor Book provides a much-needed window into a little-documented time in black history. The poignant story, based on the memoir of Maritcha Remond Lyons, shows what it was like to be a black child born free and living in New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award 2023 and Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Association Book Award 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781984847638Author...

Bring Black history in America to vivid life for kids through powerful sound clips from 12 Black leaders, amplified by bold illustrations and background facts.*2024 Notable Social Studies Trade Book*With the touch of the button, hear impactful quotes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506467917Author Dawson, Keila V.Format HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534403406Author Thea FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Simon SpotlightPublisher Simon SpotlightWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316475099Author Vashti HarrisonPage Count 26Imprint LB KidsPublisher LB KidsWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 175mm * 18mm

Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I Rise," Angelou was able to lift herself out of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award for Young People's Literature 2014 and Newbery Honor Book 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780147515827Author Jacqueline WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage...

The American boxing champ and vocal civil rights activist Muhammad Ali is the 27th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. (Cover may vary) Muhammad Ali was the leading heavyweight boxer of the 20th century...

Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780152085667Author Louis HaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646044450Author Rann MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481401418Author Barry DenenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

In some parts of America in the 1950s, White people and Black people were treated very differently. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King publicly fought against this - but in very different ways. This is the powerful and inspiring story of how they stood up...

Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award Recipient of a Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction Special Mention Honor Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019 From celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for NAACP Image Awards. Nominated for NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies.Book InformationISBN 9780375869730Author Renee...

Filled with Greenfield's moving poems, complemented by Minter's dramatic portraits-dominated by rich shades of blue, of women and babies; a unique and moving tribute to the women who caught the babies and continue to do so today.The Women Who Caught the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593533369Author Brad MeltzerFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564314Author Muata AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Cruzian Mystic BooksPublisher Cruzian Mystic BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Deeply influential cultural icon Oprah Winfrey is the twenty-fifth hero in this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series. (Cover may vary)This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits...

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Image Award.Book InformationISBN 9781592402496Author Hill HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...