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By Craig Kofi Farmer
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2024. Fiction. 340 pages.

"Twelve-year-old Kwame is hurled into the Ghanaian underworld where he helps his late grandmother save humanity." --Editor

Written by Jazmyn Simon
Illustrated by Tamisha Anthony
New York : Random House, 2022. Picture Book.

"A little girl learns to love each part of herself, from her spectacular hair to her big heart." --Editor

Written by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Illustrated by Daniel Minter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Picture Book.

"This picture book follows one color's journey throughout history--from ancient Afghan painters to 1905, when a chemical blue dye was created--and around the world, as it becomes the blue we know today." --Editor

By Kekla Magoon
Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2024. Fiction. 373 pages.

"Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she "checks out" adventure after adventure." --Editor

Written by Jason Reynolds
Illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023. Picture Book.

"A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991." --Editor

Written by Kwame Alexander
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Boston : Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. Picture Book.

"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"-- Provided by publisher.

By Jerry Pinkney
New York; Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2020. Picture Book.

"In this reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little mermaid trades her voice for legs and makes a new friend on land, but must return to the sea to save her family"-- Provided by publisher.

By Faith Ringgold
New York, NY: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. Picture Book.

"Lonnie and his uncle journey back in time to the Harlem Renaissance." --Editor

Written by Kelly Starling Lyons
Illustrated by Daniel Minter
Atlanta, Georgia: Peachtree Publishers, 2019. Picture Book.

"Alan looks forward to the annual family reunion at the farm where Daddy grew up, but everyone is supposed to share something special and Alan worries about arriving with empty hands." --Editor
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