Books for Black History Month
Black History Month is a time to celebrate and reflect on the significant achievements of Black people in Canada and beyond, and explore the diversity of past and present experiences of Black people. We hope you’ll check out some of these books in our collection this month.
For Kids:
Picture Books
All because you matter by Tami Charles
Hair love by Matthew A. Cherry
I got the rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison
Dear black girls by Shanice Nicole
Non-Fiction
Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians : inspiring stories of courage and achievement by Lindsay Ruck
Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker
This is your time by Ruby Bridges
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Viola Desmond won't be budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner
Fiction:
Becoming Muhannad Ali: a novel by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander
Before the ever after by Jacqueline Woodson
Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliot
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
New Kid by Jerry Craft (graphic novel)
For Teens:
The bones of ruin by Sarah Raughley
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
The field guide to the North American teenager by Ben Phillipe
Frying plantain : stories by Reid-Benta, Zalika
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Adults:
Fiction and Poetry
Africville : a novel by Jeffrey Colvin
Black girl, call home by Jasmine Mans (poetry)
Black matters by Afua Cooper (poetry)
Butter honey pig bread: a novel by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Washington Black : a novel / Esi Edugyan
Non-Fiction
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 by Imbrim X Kendi
The skin we're in : a year of Black resistance and power / Desmond Cole
Shut out : the game that did not love me black : a hockey memoir by Bernie Saunders
Where beauty survived : an Africadian memoir by George Elliot Clarke
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