Books like Little Rebels
By Yuyi Morales
For the kid who asks a hundred questions a day and invents new words when the old ones won't do, this book says that spirit is worth celebrating. Bold, spirited, and rooted in ancestry — playful energy that turns serious when it matters.
An original poem celebrates girls and girlhood in all their forms, honoring how girls have shaped history while calling them to stand together and march boldly into the future.
A fearless young woman falls in love with flying after her first airplane ride, then defies people who scoff at her dreams to become a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
A true story about a young inventor who builds his own microphone from a broomstick, a cinderblock, and a telephone, then goes on to engineer the world's first solid-body electric guitar.
A boy in Punjab, born with weak legs that kept him from playing cricket or walking to school, grows stronger year by year on his family's farm and eventually runs marathons at over one hundred years old.
A musical girl from small-town North Carolina, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, grows into the singer Nina Simone — her sweet voice rising into a thunderous roar of protest during the Civil Rights Movement.
A groundbreaking basketball player soars above the rim with a style no one had seen before, then takes a stand when hotels and restaurants refuse him for being Black.
A picture book biography of the first Black woman elected to Congress, tracing her early years, her fight for a seat in the halls of power, and her bid to become president.
A rap-inspired tribute moves through the stories of Indigenous heroes past and present — Tecumseh, Sacagawea, Crazy Horse, astronaut John Herrington, NHL goalie Carey Price — all building to one message: we are people who matter.
A lyrical journey through the history of Black music in America, from spirituals and blues to jazz, soul, and hip-hop, packed with over 80 references to real artists like Billie Holiday and Kendrick Lamar.
A young Vietnamese boy sets out alone in a small wooden boat through the rainy Mekong Delta, facing towering waves and eerie forests to reach a destination familiar to children everywhere: school.
A glamorous Hollywood movie star secretly spends her nights inventing — and during World War Two, she develops a groundbreaking communications system the military doesn't take seriously, at first, because of who she is.
A fearless Indigenous boy nicknamed Sharuko explores caves and burial grounds in the Peruvian Andes, then grows up to become the archaeologist who proves Peru's ancient cultures thousands of years old.
