Books like Harlem Grown
By Tony Hillery
For the kid who wants to know if grown-ups can really fix broken things, this is proof that they can, one seed and one shovel at a time. Grounded, hopeful, and rooted in real city streets and real dirt under fingernails.
A woman who loves the trees of her Kenyan homeland begins planting seeds one by one, teaching other women to do the same, until the whole country grows strong and green again.
In the late 1930s, a New York mail carrier named Victor Hugo Green sets out to help Black Americans travel safely despite segregation, creating a guide that spreads from his city to the whole nation.
A girl grows up among fig trees and streams in the Kenyan highlands, then returns home from college to find the land stripped bare and her people struggling — so she sets out to bring the trees back.
A country cottontail raising twenty-one children dreams of becoming an Easter Bunny, and when the wise Grandfather Bunny notices how capably she runs her big household, he chooses her for the job.
Mother Earth writes a heartfelt letter to children everywhere, telling them how much she loves them and asking them to love and protect her and all the creatures who share her home.
A little girl named Jane grows up watching birds, trees, and animals with her toy chimpanzee Jubilee always at her side, dreaming of a life spent living among and helping all creatures.
With a baby on her hip and laundry still waiting, a no-nonsense creator demands light and dark, earth and sky, and every living creature into being — then sits back satisfied with what she's made.
A spirited young girl navigates segregated 1950s Nashville alone, facing Jim Crow signs and painful moments on her way to the one welcoming place in town: the public library.
A girl who loves acting out every story she hears sets her heart on playing Peter Pan in the school play, then hears a classmate say she can't — because she's a girl, and because she's Black.
A determined young dancer in the 1930s and 40s trains for ballet despite discriminatory schools, then refuses to paint her skin white for a company's offer — and rises to become the Met Opera's first Black prima ballerina.
A brightly painted chiva bus climbs and winds through the rugged Andes mountains, carrying its passengers and the spirit of Colombian community along every bend.
A simple food connects generations of a Native American family, as fry bread becomes a lens for exploring food, time, nation, and identity across communities from coast to coast.
