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Biographies

  • Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever

  • A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music (A Child’s Introduction Series)

  • She Persisted: Dorothy Height

  • All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson

  • Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll

  • Sugar Pie Lullaby: The Soul of Motown in a Song of Love

  • Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush

  • Ketanji: Justice Jackson’s Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court

  • Words of Wonder from Z to A

  • The History of Juneteenth: A History Book for New Readers (The History of: A History Series for New Readers)

  • The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States

  • All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

  • My Rainbow

  • Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King

  • The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

  • How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee

  • People of Yesterday : A Journey to Explore Ancient Civilizations of the World

  • Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)

  • The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

  • Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History

  • Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Our Ancestories)

  • I Am Not Sleepy!: A preschool and toddler book for bedtime and naps (Curly Crew Series)

  • Earthbred: This Light of Mine

  • Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll

  • Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan, Computer Scientist

  • Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book

  • You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce

  • Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better

  • Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes

  • Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker

  • Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

  • Because Claudette

  • Chef Edna: Queen of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis

  • In Grenada, What do you see?

  • The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music

  • Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for All

  • Basketball Dreams

  • A Flag for Juneteenth

  • Alexa, What Color Are You?

  • Garfield Goes to Haiti: My Middle School Summer Vacation and the 2021 Earthquake