Books for the Black Lives Matter Week of Action

Thanks to the generosity of the publishers below, educators will receive free books for use with their students.

For additional titles and booklists, please see our lists for early childhood/elementary and middle/high school.

Annick Press

El Abuelo by Debbie Bailey

The Culture C.O.-O.P.

Grandma Says Our Hair Has Flair by Sandy Lynne Holman

Faber and Faber

My Hair by Hannah Lee, Allen Fatimaharan

Haymarket Books

Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

Lerner Publishing Group

Africa is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight

The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey

Lyons Press

The New Whistleblower’s Handbook by Stephen Martin Kohn

Macmillan Publishing Group

Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Renee Watson

The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan

Mama Africa: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song by Kathryn Erskine

So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary Schmidt

Penguin Randomhouse

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

Ellen's Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Scholastic Press

The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis

My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete

Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra L. Pinkney

Simon and Schuster

A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson

Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzales

St. Martin's Press

When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

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