Black History Month Reading Suggestions for Children

Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. J Bio BRIDGES RUBY Autobiog

Bryan, Ashley Beautiful Blackbird. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c. 2003. J398.2 BRYAN

Bolden, Tonya. Rock of Ages: a Tribute to the Black Church. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c.2002. J 811 BOLDEN

Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher Collier Jump Ship to Freedom. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books Pub., 1987, c1981. JPBKC

Curtis, Paul Christopher Bud, Not Buddy. New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. JF CURTIS, CHRISTOP PAUL Bud not

De Angelis, Gina. Black Cowboys. Broomall, PA.: Chelsea House Publishers, c. 1998. J978D346b

Golenbock, Peter. Teammates. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c. 1990. J Bio ROBINSON JACKIE Golenboc

Hamilton, Virginia Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales. New York: Blue Sky Press,c1995. J398.2 H18h

Hansen, Joyce. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly. New York: Scholastic, c. 1997. J F HANSEN, JOYCE I though

Hardy, P. Stephen. Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Children's Press, c. 2002.

Haskins, Godwin. Carter G. Woodson: the Man Who Put "Black" in American History. Brookfield, Conn: Millbrook Press, c. 2000. J Bio WOODSON CARTER GODWIN HASKINS

Hopkinson, Deborah Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. New York: Knopf, 1993. JF H7179 22

Lasky, Kathryn. Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 2000. J Bio WALKER C.J. LASKY

Lucas, Eileen. Cracking the Wall: the Struggles of the Little Rock Nine. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, c. 1997. J 379.263 LUCAS

Lyons, Mary E. Letters From a Slave Girl: the Story of Harriet Jacobs. New York: Scribner, c. 1992. JF L995 14

McKissack, Patricia C. and Fredrick L. Days of Jubilee: the end of slavery in the United States. New York: Scholastic Press, 2003. J973.7 MCKISSAC

Medearis, Angela Shelf Our People. New York: Atheneum, 1994. J973.04973 M467o

Murphy, Rita. Black Angels. New York: Delacourt Press, c. 2001. JF MURPHY RITA Black an

Myers, Walter Dean. Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse. New York: Harper Publishers, c.1993. J 811 M992b

Pfeifer, Kathryn Browne. The 761st Tank Battalion: African American Soldiers. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1994. J 940.54 P 76s

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let It Shine: stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. San Diego: Harcourt, c. 2000. j 323.092 PINKNEY

Rappaport, Doreen. Martin's Big Words: the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001. J Bio KING MARTIN Rappapor

Ringgold, Faith Dinner at Aunt Connie's House. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, c1993. JF R6185 5

Ringgold, Faith. If A Bus Could Talk: the Story of Rosa Parks. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young People, 1999. J Bio PARKS ROSA

Ringgold Ryan, Pam Munoz. When Marian Sang: the True Recital of Marian Anderson, the Voice of the Century. New York: Scholastic Press, 2002. J Bio ANDERSON MARIANRyan

Taylor, Mildred. The Friendship. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, c. 1987. JF T2165 9

Troy, Don. W.E.B. Dubois. Chanhassen, Minn.: Child's World, c. 1999. J Bio DUBOIS W.E.B. Troy

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