List of books by several phenomenal Writers. Great Reads for the Month of July!  “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  Ernest Hemingway

Infants-Preschoolers

1.A Baby Just Like Me -Susan Winter

2.Ballerina Girl- Kirsten Hall

3.Something Beautiful-Sharon Dennis Wyeth

4.Charlie Parker Played Be Bop-Chris Raschka

5.I have Heard Of A Land- Joyce Carol Thomas

Grades K-3rd 

1. Bigmama’s-Donald Grews

2. Black is Brown Is Tan -Arnold Adoff

3.I love My Hair- Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

4. In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers

5.the Bat Boy and his Violin- Gavin Curtis

Grades 4th -8th 

1. Addy Learns a Lesson: A school Story – Connie Porter

2. At Her majesty’s Request: An African American Princess  In Victorian England

3.From Slave Ship To Freedom Road- Julius Lester

4.Heaven- Angela Johnson

5. Through My Eyes- Ruby Bridges

        Teens

1. Copper Sun- Sharon M Draper

2. The skin I’m In -Sharon G Flake

3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

4.Monster- Walter Dean Myers

5. Path To My African Eyes- Ermila Moodley

   Adults 

1. Black Skin White Mask-Frantz Fanon

2.Existence In Black-Lewis R. Gordon

3.Beloved-Toni Morrison

4.Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe

5. kindred- Octavia E Butler

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” Joyce Carol Oates