Reading Recommendations

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February 2026

Adults: Celebrate Black History

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
Barracoon : the story of the last
Roots : the saga of an American family by Alex Haley
Grand union : stories by Zadie Smith
The collected poems of Langston Hughes
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Richard Wright reader by Richard Wright
Go tell it on the mountain. by James Baldwin
No gods, no monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Teens: Black History Month

Inheritance by Elizabeth Acevedo
Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson
Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
Augusta Savage by Marilyn Nelson
Victory Stand! by Tommie Smith
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys
Big Jim and the White Boy by David Walker

Children's: Black History Month

Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Bunheads by Misty Copeland
Sulwe by Lupita Nyongo
Family Feast by Carole Boston Weatherford
New Kid by Jerry Craft
All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks by Cynthia Levinson
Stitch by Stitch: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly Sews Her Way to Freedom by Connie Schofield-Morrison
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiet by Javaka Steptoe
Ode to Grapefruit: How James Early Jones Found HIs Voice by Kari Lavelle