Audience: Adult
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Game Changers: Stories of Hijabi Athletes From Around the World
Many of these women were the first in their sport to compete while wearing the hijab. Some were up against cultural traditions that didn’t allow girls to play sports. And some fought to have institutional anti-hijab rules changed so that they would be able to compete.
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Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library
A Jewish woman who had fled from the Nazis, was determined to restore a sense of childhood to German children after World War II. She collected 4,000 children’s books that would eventually become the International Youth Library in Munich, now with over 600,000 items.
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Botticelli’s Apprentice
Husted wrote and illustrated an inspiring, and well-researched fiction graphic novel that reveals information about women and social stereotypes during the Renaissance, as witnessed through the day to day life of Botecelli’s female apprentice, Mella.
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Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman
Sharice Davids was one of the first Indigenous women elected to Congress. This book teaches everyone that they can work to overcome obsticales and be heard.
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Girls Belong in Space
Girls Belong in Space describes the role of women in the space program from launching the first US astronauts into space to guiding rovers to Mars. Girls can do anything and go anywhere!
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The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults) Five Black Ballerinas: A Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Meet five Black ballerinas from The Dance Theater of Harlem. They broke barriers and made history in the world of classical dance, over coming prejudice during the civil rights movement.
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The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
In Great Mountain, Mississippi, everyone is watching Henson Blayze, a football genius. The predominately white townsfolk have been waiting for Henson to play high school ball, and now the township is overjoyed to have an exceptional Black athlete of their own.Until a horrifying incident forces Henson to speak out about injustice.
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The True Story of Vanilla: How Edmond Albius Made History
Edmond Albius a slave on a sugar plantation invented the process for hand polinating vanilla orchards plants.This book reveals the atrocities of slavery, and Albius’ struggle to be recognized as the inventor of the process.
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Carlotta’s Special Dress: How a Walk to School Changed Civil Rights History
Carlotta was the youngest member of the Little Rock 9. This is her story about integrating an all white school.
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And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories
“There is a line in Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon in which a character exclaims “And she was loved” in an expression of resistance against the anti-Blackness she experiences. In this poetic paean to the late author, Pinkney employs the same line as a motif to express deep reverence and affection for Morrison’s life…
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Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
Paul R. Williams an orphaned Black boy growing up in America in the early 1900s, experienced prejudice, and dreamed of building his own home, he began drawing sketches of his dream home, defying the odds and breaking down the wall of racism as a popular Black architect in the 1920s – 1970s.
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As You Are: A Hope for Black Sons
Wisdom from a Black mother to her son, “to embrace the world when it is kind, and to know that he is worthy when it is not.” Empowering Black sons to be proud of who they are.