 | OLD - African-Americans: Honoring the Past |
| Recommended historical fiction for grades K-8. | |
Picture Books (JE)
| Battle-Lavert | Papa's Mark |
| Bearden | Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story |
| Belton | Pictures for Miss Josie |
| Birtha | Grandmama's Pride |
| Blue | Ron's Big Mission |
| Bradby | More Than Anything Else |
| Dawes | I Saw Your Face |
| Evans | Hush Harbor: Praying in Secret |
| Harrington | Going North |
| Homan | The Tuskegee Airmen Story |
| Hopkinson | Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt |
| Isadora | Ben's Trumpet |
| Johnson | A Sweet Smell of Roses |
| Johnson | Just Like Josh Gibson |
| Johnson | Wind Flyers |
| Lorbiecki | Jackie's Bat |
| Lyons | One Million Men and Me |
| McKissack | Goin' Someplace Special |
| Michelson | Happy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers and Me |
| Miller | Joe Louis, My Champion |
| Polacco | Pink and Say |
| Ransom | Liberty Street |
| Ringgold | Tar Beach |
| Shange | Ellington Was Not a Street |
| Shore | This Is the Dream |
| Siegelson | Dancing the Ring Shout! |
| Smalls | Don't Say Ain't |
| Stauffacher | Bessie Smith and the Night Riders |
| Stroud | The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom |
| Swain | Riding to Washington |
| Walter | Alec's Primer |
| Weatherford | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom |
| Winter | Follow the Drinking Gourd |
| Woodson | The Other Side |
Easy Readers (JE ER)
| Ransom | Rescue on the Outer Banks |
Children’s Fiction (J)
| Armstrong | Sounder |
| Berleth | Samuel's Choice |
| Burg | A Thousand Never Evers |
| Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy |
| Greenfield | Easter Parade |
| Hamilton | Drylongso |
| Hegamin | Most Loved in All the World |
| Levine | Henry's Freedom Box |
| Littlesugar | Freedom School, Yes! |
| McKissack | Abby Takes a Stand |
| McKissack | Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North |
| Nelson | Almost to Freedom |
| Porter | Meet Addy: An American Girl |
| Rappaport | Freedom Ship |
| Robinet | Children of the Fire |
| Robinet | Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule |
| Siegelson | Escape South |
| Tate | The Minstrel's Melody |
| Taylor | Mississippi Bridge |
| Taylor | The Gold Cadillac |
| Weatherford | Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins |
| Woodson | Show Way |
Junior High Fiction (Y)
| Berry | Ajeemah and His Son |
| Carbone | Storm Warriors |
| Collier | Jump Ship to Freedom |
| Collier | War Comes to Willy Freeman |
| Curtis | The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (See also J and J/p) |
| Lyons | Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs |
| Myers | The Glory Field |
| Paulsen | Nightjohn |
| Rinaldi | Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley |
| Rinaldi | Wolf by the Ears |
| Robinet | Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses |
| Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Taylor | The Land |
| Walter | Second Daughter: Story of a Slave Girl |
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Wilmette Public Library Youth Department
www.wilmettelibrary.info/kids Last Updated 4/13 |