Books like Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
By Carole Boston Weatherford
For families ready to talk about hard history with honesty and care, this book gives them the words and images to start. Somber, dignified, unflinching but never gratuitous.
When her mother is deported to Mexico for not being born in the U.S., eight-year-old Estela writes letter after letter — to newspapers, Congress, even the President — until someone finally listens.
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 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 young Indigenous girl decides to grow her hair long, after her mother's was called too wild and her grandmother's was taken from her, to honor her family and culture.
Enslaved people in 19th-century Louisiana count down the days through endless labor — slopping hogs, chopping logs, plucking hens — toward Sunday afternoon, when they gather in New Orleans' Congo Square to sing, dance, and briefly live free.
A girl named Yaffa grows up in a Polish town full of family and light, learning photography in her grandmother's studio — until Nazi soldiers destroy her community, and she spends her life recovering the town's lost photographs to build a lasting tribute.
An enslaved man endures separation from his family in Virginia, then hits on a desperate plan: mailing himself in a wooden crate to freedom in the North.
A girl named Keira begins to question her close friendship with her neighbor Bianca after learning what the Confederate flag flying on Bianca's porch actually means.
A koala named Kevin clings safely to his tree, too nervous to come down and join the other animals — until his tree falls and the ground he always feared is suddenly unavoidable.
A child is followed by a strange, shadowy problem that grows bigger the longer it's avoided — until finally facing it changes everything.
During World War II, a young girl stays behind with her grandma when her mama leaves for Chicago to fill a wartime job, and the two wait together through winter for word that Mama is coming home.
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.
