Black History Month Staff Recommendations
Celebrate Black History Month by reading books that celebrate black historical figures, culture, literature, and music selected by staff at the Gulfport Public Library.
Picture Books
Your Name is a Song
by Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
by Derrick Barnes
Black is a Rainbow Color
by Angela Joy
My Hair is a Garden
by Cozbi Cabrera
Bedtime Bonnet
by Nancy Redd
Hair Love
by Matthew Cherry
Don’t Touch my Hair
by Sharee Miller
This is the Rope
By Jacqueline Woodson
Each Kindness
by Jacqueline Woodson
Tar Beach
by Faith Reinggold
Marvelous Cornelius
By Phil Bildner
Little Leaders
by Vashti Harrison
Middle Grade
Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky
by Kwame Mbalia
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams Garcia
As Brave As You
by Jason Reynolds
Blended
by Sharon Draper
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
by Ibi Zoboi
STAT series
by Amar’e Stoudamire
The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander
Black Brother Black Brother
By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Clean Getaway By Nic Stone
By Jewell Parker Rhodes
New Kid
by Jerry Craft
Teens
The Hate you Give
by Angie Thomas
When I Was the Greatest
by Jason Reynolds
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
March Series
by John Lewis
Stamped
by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
The First Part Last
by Angela Johnson
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Now That I’ve Found You
by Kristina Forest
Adult
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
Sing Unburied Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
The Other Wes Moore
by Wes Moore
Delicious Foods
by James Hannaham
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N.K. Jemison
The Ballad of Black Tom By Victor Lavalle
by Justina Ireland
From Crook to Cook
by Snoop Dog
A Raisin in the Sun
By Rosetta James
When No One is Watching
By Alyssa Cole
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin
Stony The Road
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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