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New Releases: May 2024

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💐May 2024
📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!

📌Tuesday May 7:
📖Your Legacy Begins: First Words to Empower (Schele Williams & Tonya Engel)
📖Peaches (Gabriele Davis & Kim Holt)
📖Being Home (Traci Sorell & Michaela Goade)
📖I’m Proud of You (Craig Melvin & Sawyer Cloud)
📖Summer is Here (Renée Watson & Bea Jackson)
📖Sister Friend (Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Shahrzad Maydani)
📖It’s Pride, Baby! (Allen R. Wells & Dia Valle)
📖Here Are the Seeds (JaNay Brown-Wood & Olivia Amoah)
📖Let’s Go!: haw êkwa! (Julie Flett)
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💐May 2024
📚MORE New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!

📌Tuesday May 7:
📖Back Home: Story Time with My Father (Arlène Elizabeth Casimir & Ken Daley)

📌Tuesday May 14:
📖What the Garden Tells Me (Monica Mikai)
📖Ruby René Had So Much to Say (Ashley Inman & Gladys Jones)
📖Dear You, Dream Big! (Baptiste Paul & Toni D. Chambers)

📌Tuesday May 21:
📖The Plant Rescuer (Matthew Rivera)
📖On the Farm (Nikki Shannon Smith & Amanda Quartey)

📌Tuesday May 28:
📖Nana’s New Soul Food (Will Power & R. Gregory Christie)
📖Never Too Much (Aundrea Tabbs-Smith & Vanessa Kaliwo)
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💐May 2024
📚New Black History & Nonfiction Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Reference, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!

📌Tuesday May 7:
📖Black History Heroes: Mae Jemison: Shooting for the Stars: The First Black Woman in Space (Chris Singleton, Ryan G. Van Cleave & Adriana Pérez Perales)
📖A Little Golden Book Biography: Muhammad Ali (Frank Berrios & Ken Daley)
📖A Little Golden Book Biography: Lionel Messi (Roberta Ludlow & Nomar Perez)
📖An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker)

📌Tuesday May 14:
📖They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park (Tonya Duncan Ellis & Jenin Mohammed)

📌Tuesday May 28:
📖Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom (Michael Boulware Moore & Bryan Collier)
📖Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade (Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long & Xia Gordan)
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💐May 2024
📚New Kidlit Chapter Books & Graphic Novels!

📌Tuesday May 7:
📖The Secret Library (Kekla Magoon)
📖Afro Unicorn: A Magical Parade (April Showers & Anthony Conley)
📖Blood at the Root (LaDarrion Wiliams)

📌Tuesday May 14:
📖With Just One Wing (Brenda Woods)
📖Onyeka and the Heroes of the Dawn (Tolá Okogwu)
📖Olivia Blackwood Takes Action! (Sonja Thomas)
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💐May 2024
📚New Grown Folks Books!

📌Tuesday May 7:
📖Coming Home (Brittany Griner)
📖A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring it All Out (Shenequa Golding)
📖Skin & Bones (Renée Watson)

📌Tuesday May 14:
📖The Lagos Wife (Vanessa Walters)

📌Tuesday May 21:
📖Control (Omar Tyree)

📌Tuesday May 28:
📖Summer on Highland Beach (Sunny Hostin)
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New Releases: April 2024

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Picture Books

🦋April 2024
📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖All I Need to Be (Rachel Ricketts & Tiffany Rose)
📖Marley’s Pride (Joëlle Retener & DeAnn Wiley)
📖From My Head to My Toes (Aly Raisman & Bea Jackson)
📖I Am More Than (LeBron James & Niña Mata)
📖More Than You Imagine (Thelia Hutchinson & Ariana Predoi)

📌Tuesday April 9:
📖Tasha’s Voice (Carmen Bogan, Floyd Cooper & Daria Peoples)
📖¡Fiesta!: A Festival of Colors (Duncan Tonatiuh)
📖Lola Meets the Bees (Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw)
📖Are You Listening? (Susan Verde & Juliana Perdomo)

📌Tuesday April 16:
📖The Heart Never Forgets (Ana Ot & Hayden Goodman)
📖Churro Stand (Karina N. González & Krystal Quiles)
📖Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude of Neurodiversity (Samara Cole Doyon & Kaylani Juanita)
📖Life’s Little Lessons*: Bye-Bye Blanket (Bernette Ford & Sam Williams)
*Five additional titles in this Board Book series also releasing on this date:
•Bye-Bye Bottle
•Bye-Bye Pacifier
•Bye-Bye Diaper
•No More Biting
•No More Hitting

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖How We Play (Dolisha Mitchell)
📖Not My Cat (Stacey Patton & Acamy Schleikorn)
📖Cute Toot (Breanna J. McDaniel & Olivia de Castro)
📖I’m Not Small: Board Book Edition (Nina Crews)

📌Tuesday April 30:
📖I Would Love You Still (Adrea Theodore & Ken Wilson-Max)
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Black History

🦋April 2024
📚New Black History & Nonfiction Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Reference, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison (Carole Boston Weatherford & Kalif Tahir Thompson)
📖The Juneteenth Cookbook: Recipes and Activities for Kids and Families to Celebrate (Alliah L. Agostini, Chef Taffy Elrod & Sawyer Cloud)
📖Our World: Columbia (Alexandra Alessandri & Manu Montoya)
📖Race to the Frozen North: The Matthew Henson Story (Catherine Johnson)
📖The Life-Changing Magic of Chess: A Beginner’s Guide with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley (Maurice Ashley & Denis Angelov)
📖Little People, Big Dreams: Beyoncé (Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara & Jade Orlando)

📌Thursday April 4:                                           📖Dancing Through Space: How Dr. Mae Jemison Soared to New Heights (Lydia Lukidis & Sawyer Cloud)

📌Tuesday April 9:
📖Juneteenth Is (Natasha Triplett & Daniel J. O’Brien)

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖Our God Is Marching On (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
📖I Heard: An American Journey (Jaha Nailah Avery & Steffi Walthall)

📌Tuesday April 30:
📖Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show (Carole Boston Weatherford & Eric Velasquez)
📖Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys (Roberto Peñas & Carl Angel)
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Chapter Books for Kids

🦋April 2024
📚New Kidlit Chapter Books & Graphic Novels!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖Ultraviolet (Aida Salazar)
📖Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World (Justin A. Reynolds)
📖Rockin’ Robots!: Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files (Andrea Beaty & Theanne Griffith)

📌Friday April 12:
📖Link + Hud: Sharks & Minnows (Jarrett Pumphrey & Jerome Pumphrey)

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖Mid-Air (Alicia D. Williams & Danica Novgorodoff)
📖Kicked Out (A.M. Dassu)
📖A Little Bit Super: With Small Power Come Big Problems (Gary D. Schmidt & More)

📌Tuesday April 30:
📖Rica Baptista: A Week of Shenanigans (Janet Costa Bates & Gladys Jose)
📖Reina Ramos: Tour Guide (Emma Otheguy & Andrés Landazábal)
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Grown Folks Books

🦋April 2024
📚New Grown Folks Books!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖All We Were Promised (Ashton Lattimore)

📌Tuesday April 9:
📖The House of Broken Bricks (Fiona Williams)

📌Tuesday April 16:
📖Woke Up No Light: Poems (Leila Mottley)

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖Out of Office (A.H. Cunningham)
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New Releases: March 2024

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🌱March 2024
📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!

📌Tuesday March 5:
📖Look How Much I’ve Grown in KINDergarten (Vera Ahiyya & Joey Chou)

📌Tuesday March 12:
📖Bros (Carole Boston Weatherford & Reggie Brown)
📖The Little Regent (Yewande Daniel-Ayoade & Ken Daley)
📖I Am Extraordinary (Stephen Curry & Geneva Bowers)
📖Old Clothes for Dinner?! (Nathalie Alonso & Natalia Rojas Castro)
📖Yaya and the Sea (Karen Good Marable & Tonya Engel)
📖I’ll See You in Ijebu (Bunmi Emenanjo & Diana Ejaita)

📌Friday March 15:
📖A Voice Like Yours (Frank Murphy, April Groman & Kayla Harren)

📌Tuesday March 19:
📖Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale (JaNay Brown-Wood & John Joven)

📌Tuesday March 26:
📖Mama’s Panza (Isabel Quintero & Iliana Galvez)
📖You Are a Unicorn: A Little Book of Afromations (April Showers & Anthony Conley)
📖No More Sleeping In (Anne Wynter & Letícia Moreno)
📖Just Like You (Anne Wynter & Letícia Moreno)
📖For You, I Will (Elle Duncan & Laura Freeman)
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Black History

🌱March 2024
📚Black History Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!

📌Tuesday March 5:
📖Miss Edmonia’s Class of Wildfires (Victoria Scott-Miller & Francisco Santoyo)
📖Beyond the Game: Athletes Change the World: Maya Moore (Andrew Maraniss & DeAndra Hodge)
📖Beyond the Game: Athletes Change the World: LeBron James (Andrew Maraniss & DeAndra Hodge)

📌Tuesday March 12:
📖Mama’s Library Summers (Melvina Noel & Daria Peoples)
📖Aunt Sue’s Stories (Langston Hughes & Gary Kelley)
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Kid’s Chapter Books

🌱March 2024
📚New Kidlit Chapter Books & Graphic Novels!

📌Tuesday March 5:
📖Blue Stars: The Vice Principal Problem (Kekla Magoon, Cynthia Leitich Smith & Molly Murakami)
📖One Big Open Sky (Lesa Cline-Ransome)
📖Warrior on the Mound (Sandra W. Headen)

📌Tuesday March 12:
📖ChupaCarter and the Screaming Sombrero (George Lopez, Ryan Calejo & Santy Gutiérrez)

📌Tuesday March 19:
📖Where Sleeping Girls Lie (Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé)

📌Tuesday March 26:
📖Safe Passage (G. Neri & David Brame)
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Grown Folks Books

🌱March 2024
📚New Grown Folks Books!

📌Tuesday March 5:
📖This Could Be Us (Kennedy Ryan)

📌Tuesday March 12:
📖Here in the Middle of Nowhere (Anastacia-Reneé)
📖Pride and Joy (Louisa Onomé)
📖Watch Where They Hide (Tamron Hall)

📌Tuesday March 19:
📖James (Percival Everett)
📖Della’s House of Style (Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Felicia Mason & Francis Ray)
📖Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services (Jessica Pryce)
📖This Ain’t No Promised Land (Tina Shelton)
📖The Waves Take You Home (María Alejandra Barrios Vélez)
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New Releases: February 2024

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❤February 2024
📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!

📌Tuesday February 6:
📖The Blue Pickup (Natasha Tripplett & Monica Mikai)
📖The Wizard of Oz: The Official Picture Book (JaNay Brown-Wood & Pablo Pino)
📖Dear Muslim Child (Rahma Rodaah & Aya Ghanameh)

📌Tuesday February 20:
📖Sydney’s Big Speech (Malcolm Newsome & Jade Orlando)
📖Yumbo Gumbo (Keila V. Dawson & Katie Crumpton)

📌Tuesday February 27:
📖Willis Watson Is a Wannabe (Carmen Bogan & Cheryl “Ras” Thuesday)
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Black History

❤February 2024
📚New Black History Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!

📌Tuesday February 6:
📖 Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller (Breanna J. McDaniel & April Harrison)
📖Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the EBONY Fashion Fair (Lisa D. Brathwaite & Lynn Gaines)
📖Little People, Big Dreams: Lenny Henry (Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara & Diane Ewen)
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Kid’s Chapter Books

❤February 2024
📚New Kidlit Chapter Books & Graphic Novels!

📌Tuesday February 6:
📖Keisha Jones Is a Force of Nature (Natalie Denny & Chanté Timothy)
📖You’re Breaking My Heart (Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich)
📖Kwame’s Magic Quest: Rise of the Green Flame (Bernard Mensah & Natasha Nayo)

📌Tuesday February 13:
📖Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert)
📖Black Girl You Are Atlas (Renée Watson & Ekua Holmes)

📌Tuesday February 27:
📖Everything I Learned about Racism I Learned in School (Tiffany Jewell) ***My apologies for incorrectly including this book in our January releases. This is the correct release date!💞
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Grown Folks

❤February 2024
📚New Grown Folks Books!📚

📌Tuesday February 6:
📖Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America (Joy-Ann Reid)
📖Redwood Court (DeLana R.A. Dameron)
📖Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation (Marcus Anthony Hunter)
📖A Love Song for Ricky Wilde (Tia Williams)

📌Tuesday February 13:
📖Neighbors and Other Stories (Diane Oliver)

📌Tuesday February 20:
📖Ours (Phillip B. Williams)

📌Tuesday February 27:
📖Brooklyn (Tracy Brown)
📖No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion (Sheila Williams)
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New Year, New Books!

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Picture Books Releasing Jan. 2024

📖When I Wrap My Hair (Shauntay Grant & Jenin Mohammad 1/2/24)
📖My Block Looks Like (Janelle Harper & Frank Morrison 1/2/24)
📖Like So (Ruth Forman & Raissa Figueroa 1/2/24)
📖The Spark in You (Andrea Pippins 1/9/24)
📖Homegrown (DeAnn Wiley 1/9/24)
📖Keep Dancing Through: A Boss Family Groove (Alison Holker Boss, Stephen “tWitch” Boss & Shellene Wright 1/16/24)
📖Elijah’s Easter Suit (Bretom Jackson & Emmanuel Boateng 1/23/24)
📖Kiki Finds Her Voice (Kierra Sheard-Kelly & Paul Kellam 1/23/24)
📖The Last Stand (Antwan Eady, Jarrett Pumphrey & Jerome Pumphrey 1/30/24)

Biographies & Nonfiction Books Releasing Jan. 2024

📖The Great Explorer of Mammoth Cave: A Graphic Novel Biography of Stephen Bishop (Shawn Pryor & Alessandro Valdright 1/1/24)
📖Who Got Game?: Basketball: Amazing But True Stories! (Derrick Barnes & Jez Tuya 1/2/24)
📖Coretta: The Autobiography of Coretta Scott King (Coretta Scott King & Ekua Holmes 1/2/24)
📖We Dream a World: Carrying the Light from My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. & Coretta Scott King (Yolanda Renee King & Nicole Tadgell 1/2/24)
📖Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote (Dinah Johnson & Jerry Jordan 1/2/24)
📖Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts: Letters to Civil Rights Activist Ruby Bridges (Ruby Bridges & John Jay Cabuay 1/2/24)
📖Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis (Lesa Cline-Ransome & James E. Ransome 1/9/24)
📖Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava 1/16/24)

Chapter Books Releasing Jan. 2024

📖Imani and the Great Hair Experiment (Cicely Lewis & Anastasia Magloire Williams 1/1/24)
👉🏾Additional titles also releasing in the Hair Magic Series include:
•Imani’s Recipe for Teamwork
•Imani Makes a Difference
•Imani Picks Up the Pieces
•Imani Finds the Right Notes
•Imani the Superhero
📖Nina Under Arrest: A Birmingham Children’s Crusade Survival Story (Anitra Butler-Ngugi 1/1/24 )
📖The Reckoning (Wade Hudson 1/2/24)
📖Dragons in a Bag Book 5: The War of the Witches (Zetta Elliott 1/9/24)
📖Shark Teeth (Sherri Winston 1/16/24)
📖Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers (Zora Neale Hurston, Ibram X. Kendi & Jazzmen Lee-Johnson 1/23/24)
📖Between Two Brothers (Crystal Allen 1/24/24)
📖The Anti-Racist Vocab Guide: An Illustrated Introduction to Dismantling Anti-Blackness (Maya Ealey 1/30/24)
📖Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School (Tiffany Jewell 1/30/24)

Grown Folks Books Releasing Jan. 2024

📖Roux (Tamika Christy 1/9/24)
📖And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Careof Self (Common 1/23/24)
📖This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Edited by Kwame Alexander 1/30/24)
📖The Mayor of Maxwell Street (Avery Cunningham 1/30/24)
📖HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience (Ayesha Rascoe 1/30/24)
📖I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (Tabitha Brown 1/30/24)
📖The American Queen (Vanessa Miller 1/30/24)
📖Come & Get It (Kiley Reid 1/30/24)
📖The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel (ReShonda Tate 1/30/24)