THE BASICS
READING LIST
The Vast Wonder of the World : Biologist Ernest Everett Just
By: Mélina Mangal
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky By: Kwame Mbalia
Midnight Without a Moon By: Linda Williams Jackson
King and the Dragonflies By: Kacen Callender
Ways to Make Sunshine By: Renée Watson
Loving vs. Virginia : A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case By: Patricia Hruby Powell
Freedom Summer : The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi By: Susan Goldman Rubin
Feed Your Mind : A Story of August Wilson By: Jen Bryant
P.S. Be Eleven By: Rita Williams- Garcia
Counting on Katherine : How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 By: Helaine Becker
Misty Copeland : Principal Ballerina By: Heather E. Schwartz
Garvey’s Choice By: Nikki Grimes
You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! By: Alex Gino
Brown Girl Dreaming By: Jacqueline Woodson
Schomburg : The Man Who Built a Library By: Carole Boston Weatherford
John Lewis : Civil Rights Champion and Politician By: Golriz Golkar
Finding Langston By: Lesa Cline- Ransome
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom : My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March By: Lynda Blackmon Lowery
For Black Girls Like Me By: Mariama Lockington
Zora! : The Life of Zora Neale Hurston By: Judith Bloom Fradin
Addy’s Cookbook : A Peek at Dining in the Past with Meals You Can Cook Today
Malcolm Little : The Boy who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X By: Ilyasah Shabazz
Victory. Stand! : Raising My Fist for Justice By: Tommie Smith
New Kid By: Jerry Craft
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