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CHILDREN’S BOOKS, WEEK OF 1-31-2022

All the things we never knew / Liara Tamani.
Aretha Franklin / written by Maria Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Amy Blackwell.
Bakhita : a novel of the Saint of Sudan / Vâeronique Olmi ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership / Steven Levingston.
The beautiful struggle : a memoir / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Black feminist politics from Kennedy to Trump / Duchess Harris.
The butterfly effect : how Kendrick Lamar ignited the soul of black America / Marcus J. Moore.
Chlorine sky / Mahogany L. Browne.
Cinderella is dead / Kalynn Bayron.
Claudette Colvin / written by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint.
Come on in : 15 stories about immigration and finding home / edited by Adi Alsaid.
Concrete rose / Angie Thomas.
Daughters of jubilation / by Kara Lee Corthron.
Dear Universe / Florence Gonsalves.
The Dozier School for Boys : forensics, survivors, and a painful past / Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD.
Exposing hate : prejudice, hatred, and violence in action / Michael Miller.
Florence Griffith Joyner / written by Rita Williams-Garcia ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint,.
Harriet Tubman / written by Ma Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Pili Aguado.
Inventing Victoria / Tonya Bolden ; illustrations by Sarah J. Coleman.
Jean-Michel Basquiat / written Maria Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Luciano Lozano.
Jesse Owens / written by Maria Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Anna Katharina Jansen.
Josephine Baker / written by Ma Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Agathe Sorlet.
The little book of feminist saints / Julia Pierpont ; illustrated by Manjit Thapp.
Love is a revolution / Renâee Watson.
Martin Luther King Jr. / written by Maria Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Mai Ly Degnan.
Motherhood so white : a memoir of race, gender, and parenting in America / Nefertiti Austin.
Muhammad Ali / written by Ma Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Brosmind.
Night music / Jenn Marie Thorne.
Notes from a young Black chef / Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein.
Obviously : stories from my timeline / Akilah Hughes.
The other Madisons : the lost history of a president’s Black family / Bettye Kearse.
Pelâe / written by Marâia Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Camila Rosa.
Prince / written by Maria Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Cachetejack.
Reaching for the Moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson / Katherine Johnson.
Richard Sherman : shutting down and speaking up / Ruth Bjorklund.
Ruby Bridges / written by Kekla Magoon ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint.
RuPaul / written by Maria Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Wednesday Holmes.
Saving Ruby King / Catherine Adel West.
Seafire / Natalie C. Parker.
She did it! : 21 women who changed the way we think / Emily Arnold McCully.
Simone Biles : dominant gymnast / Bethany Bryan.
Sing and shout : the mighty voice of Paul Robeson / Susan Goldman Rubin.
Some other now / Sarah Everett.
Somebody give this heart a pen / Sophia Thakur.
Stephen Curry : NBA sharpshooter / Kaitlyn Duling.
Stevie Wonder / written by Maria Isabel Sâanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Melissa Lee Johnson.
Stolen justice : the struggle for African American voting rights / Lawrence Goldstone ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
This is kind of an epic love story / Kheryn Callender.
Thurgood Marshall : the making of America / by Teri Kanefield.
True to you / Tony Correia.
We three / Markus Harwood-Jones.
What it is : race, family, and one thinking Black man’s blues / Clifford Thompson.
What momma left me / Renâee Watson.
Who put this song on? / Morgan Parker.
Wilma Rudolph / written by Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Amelia Flower.