New and Notable for Adults, Teens, and Kids

Kids: Let's Talk About the Civil Rights Movement

February Staff Picks List

  • Through My Eyes


  • Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary


  • Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965


  • Love Is Loud


  • Lifting As We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box


  • Nina: A Story of Nina Simone


  • Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes


  • Black Voter Suppression


  • The Undefeated


  • Because of You, John Lewis


  • A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington


  • Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King


  • One Crazy Summer


  • What Is The Civil Rights Movement?


  • Freedom Summer 1964: Turning Point for Voting Rights


  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom


  • Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement


  • Radiant


  • Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers


Teens: YA Black History Month

February Staff Picks List

  • Fast Pitch


  • Brooms


  • Nubia: Real One


  • The Davenports


  • That Self-Same Metal


  • Legendborn


  • Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known


  • Artie and the Wolf Moon


  • The Crossover


  • Sleep Like Death


  • Infinity Alchemist


  • Wash Day Diaries


  • The Gilded Ones


  • Their Vicious Games


  • The Weight of Blood


  • Swim Team


  • Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song


  • Skin of the Sea


  • Blood Debts


  • Ghost Roast


Adults: Celebrate Black History Month with Recent Releases

February Staff Picks List

  • Misunderstood


  • Minor Black Figures


  • This Here Is Love


  • An Unlikely Coven


  • Black-Owned: the Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore


  • Can't Get Enough


  • I’ll Make a Spectacle of You


  • Simply More: A Book For Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much


  • The King Must Die


  • The Wilderness


  • Listen to Your Sister


  • Amity


  • Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore


  • Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes