Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Black History Month

 In honor of Black History Month, this installment of the Subversive Children's Book Club features books with African American main characters as well as books about important events in African-American history.  Some of the books on the list are novels and some are non-fiction.  Some are mainly entertainment and some are the kind of important literature that takes on racism and educates and empowers.  Enjoy.
 
Primary and Lower Elementary 

• If A Bus Could Talk:  The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold
• Ruby Bridges Goes To School:  My True Story by Ruby Bridges
• Sister Anne’s Hands by Marybeth Lorbiecki
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold 
• Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
• A Pocket For Corduroy by Don Freeman
• Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in The Sky by Faith Ringgold
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
• More More More, Said The Baby by Vera Williams
• Just Us Women by Jeannette Cains 
• Sit-In:  How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson  

 Upper Elementary

• One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams Garcia
• Junebug by Alice Mead
• Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine 
•  Double Dutch by Sharon Draper
• Moses:  When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
• From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester

 Teens

• Like Sisters on The Homefront by Rita Williams Garcia
•  Tyrell  by Coe Booth
• Kendra by Coe Booth
• Fast Talk On A Slow Track by Rita Williams Garcia
• After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Hoopster, Hip Hop High School and Homeboyz (a series) by  Alan Lawrence Sitomer
• My Mother The Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
• Al la Carte  by Tanita Davis 
• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals.