Book Lists

Why We Need Diverse Books

• What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan(Chris Barton & Ekua Holmes; Beach Lane)
• The Stuff of Stars(Marion Dane Bauer & Ekua Holmes; Candlewick)
• Calling Dr. Zaza(Mylo Freeman; Clavis)
• These Colors Are Bananas(Jason Fulford & Tamara Shopsin; Phaidon)
• I Walk with Vanessa(Kerascoët; Schwartz & Wade)
• Wallpaper(Thao Lam; Owlkids)
• Don't Touch My Hair!(Sharee Miller; Little, Brown)
• Dreamers(Yuyi Morales; Neal Porter Books)
• Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins, (Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich & Jade Johnson; Seagrass Press)
• Mommy's Khimar(Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Ebony Glenn; Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster) 
• Blue(Laura Vaccaro Seeger; Roaring Book Press)
• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga(Traci Sorell & Frané Lessac; Charlesbridge)
• The Day You Begin(Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael López; Nancy Paulsen)

• Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man(Tonya Bolden; Abrams) 
• Hurricane Child(Kheryn Callender; Scholastic)
• So Done(Paula Chase; Greenwillow)
• The Serpent's Secret(Sayantani DasGupta; Scholastic)
• Dragons in a Bag(Zetta Elliott; Random House)
• You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!(Alex Gino; Scholastic)
• The Parker Inheritance(Varian Johnson; Arthur A. Levine)
• The Season of Styx Malone(Kekla Magoon; Wendy Lamb)
• Tight(Torrey Maldonado; Nancy Paulsen)
• Dactyl Hill Squad(Daniel José Older; Arthur A. Levine)
• Amal Unbound(Aisha Saeed; Nancy Paulsen)
• Betty Before X(Ilyasah Shabazz & Renée Watson; Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
• Harbor Me(Jacqueline Woodson; Nancy Paulsen)
• Front Desk(Kelly Yang; Arthur A. Levine)
• Love Like Sky(Leslie C. Youngblood; Disney-Hyperion)

• Speak: The Graphic Novel(Laurie Halse Anderson & Emily Carroll; Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
• Sanity and Tallulah(Molly Brooks; Disney-Hyperion)
• Hey, Kiddo(Jarrett J. Krosoczka; Graphix)
• Aquicorn Cove(Katie O’Neill; Oni Press)
• Akissi: Tales of Mischief(Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin; Flying Eye Books)

Just Us Books

The African American Children's Book Project

International Literacy Association Special Interest Book Lists

Lee and Low Book Lists (Multicultural children's book publisher)

Multicultural and Social Justice Books for Children