Books like That Flag
By Tameka Fryer Brown
For families ready to talk honestly about symbols, history, and what friendship can survive, this book opens the door gently but doesn't let anyone off the hook. Tender, thoughtful, quietly weighty
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 boy named Dennis expresses everything through mime — silent, expressive, entirely his own way — until loneliness gives way to friendship when he meets a girl named Joy.
A Black girl named Clover is told it isn't safe to cross the fence separating her side of town from the white side where Anna lives — so the two girls find a way to be together anyway, by sitting on top of it.
A girl spends her best friend's last day in the neighborhood playing among moving boxes, watching the truck swallow up furniture and memories before saying a hard goodbye.
A lyrical, free-verse journey traces enslaved Black Americans' path to freedom, from the moment shackles fell in 1865 Galveston, Texas to how Juneteenth is honored today.
A tortoise named Truman watches his best friend Sarah board the number eleven bus for her first day of school, then decides he must do something he's never dared before.
A six-year-old girl becomes the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960, walking past angry mobs of parents every day just to learn.
Imprisoned with her family at a WWII incarceration camp, a young woman finds a small library and, in it, a quiet friendship with a man who checks out an armful of books every single day.
A girl named Chloe and her friends refuse to let a new classmate named Maya join their games, until a lesson about kindness leaves Chloe facing what she lost by turning away.
A young girl leaves her grandmother's house in Mexico to join her parents and brother in New York, facing a new language, unfair accusations, and the slow work of calling a new place home.
Two children prepare for el Día de los Muertos, making sugar skulls and special bread, then scatter marigold petals to guide their ancestors home for a night of singing, dancing, and remembering.
A boy who longs to be a trumpeter can only play an imaginary horn, until a musician from the neighborhood night club notices his ambition and takes him seriously.
