2021

Books I have read in 2021 (including picture books* and research**):

  1. King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
  2. I Talk Like a River by Jrodan Scott*
  3. My Very Favorite Books in the Whole Wide World by Malcolm Mitchell*
  4. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho*
  5. Stella’s Stellar Hair by Yesenia Moises*
  6. Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
  7. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
  8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (reread)
  9. Consent (for Kids!): Boundaries, Respect, and Being in Charge of YOU by Rachel Brian
  10. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford*
  11. Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance edited by Bethany C. Morrow
  12. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
  13. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
  14. What About Worms!? (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!, #7) by Ryan T. Higgins*
  15. There is a Rainbow by Theresa Trinder*
  16. The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found by Karina Yan Glaser
  17. Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zore Neale Hurston by Alicia D. Williams*
  18. Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
  19. 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr.*
  20. Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham*
  21. When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
  22. Milo Reimagines the World by Matt de la Peña
  23. Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Méndez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh*
  24. Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst**
  25. Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford*
  26. Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School by Janet Halfmann*
  27. Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
  28. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
  29. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
  30. The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe by Sandra Nickel*
  31. The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
  32. The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
  33. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
  34. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
  35. Yes Day!  by Amy Krouse Rosenthal*
  36. Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu (reread)
  37. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
  38. Oona by Kelly DiPucchio*
  39. Starfish by Lisa Fipps
  40. Watercress by Andrea Wang*
  41. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
  42. Zonia’s Rain Forest by Juana Martimez-Neal
  43. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (reread)
  44. America, My Love, America, My Heart by Daria Peoples-Riley*
  45. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (reread)
  46. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
  47. The Anti-Racist Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez**
  48. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
  49. The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  50. Go with the Flow by Lily Williams
  51. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J. K. Rowling (reread)
  52. Kiss Number 8 by Colleen A. F. Venable
  53. Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos*
  54. Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
  55. Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul
  56. What the Road Said by Cleo Wade*
  57. The Starkeeper by Faith Pray*
  58. Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
  59. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
  60. The Awakening of Malcolm X by Tiffany D. Jackson and Ilyasah Shabazz
  61. Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
  62. Be You! by Peter H. Reynolds*
  63. Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabrina Khan
  64. Finding Junie Kim by Elleh Oh
  65. Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
  66. Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers by Thomas Newkirk**
  67. Switch by A. S. King
  68. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  69. Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
  70. Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration by Samara Cole Doyon*
  71. Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes by M. Colleen Cruz**
  72. The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
  73. Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
  74. The Only (Endling #3) by Katherine Applegate
  75. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted by Damian Duffy
  76. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris**
  77. Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
  78. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  79. Starfish by Lisa Fipps (reread)
  80. Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbiké-Ìyímídé
  81. What’s the Big Secret?: Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys by Laurene Krasny Brown*
  82. We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
  83. The Tree in Me by Corinna Luyken*
  84. I Am a Kindness Hero by Jennifer Adams*
  85. What We’ll Build: Plans for Our Together Future by Oliver Jeffers*
  86. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera*
  87. Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor by Kate Messner*
  88. Thao by Thao Lam*
  89. The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
  90. In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks by Don Brown
  91. What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey**
  92. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  93. Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community by Liz Kleinrock**
  94. Black Boy Joy edited by Kwame Mbalia
  95. Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe
  96. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly D. Tatum**
  97. Tristan Strong Keeps Punching by Kwame Mbalia
  98. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
  99. Black Birds in the Sky: the Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
  100. Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
  101. Run: Book One by John Lewis
  102. The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish by Karina Yan Glaser
  103. Change Sings: a Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman*
  104. Know My Name by Chanel Miller
  105. The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
  106. An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
  107. You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
  108. The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely
  109. Counting Descent by Clint Smith
  110. Willodeen by Katherine Applegate
  111. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
  112. White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
  113. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
  114. Room to Dream by Kelly Yang
  115. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  116. Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray
  117. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Nikkolas Smith*
  118. The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker
  119. ME (Moth) by Amber McBride
  120. The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo
  121. Roxy by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman
  122. Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel adapted by Andrew Donkin
  123. Something Good by Marcy Campbell*
  124. Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds
  125. Our Table by Peter H. Reynolds*
  126. Will by Will Smith
  127. Gladys the Magic Chicken by Adam Rubin*
  128. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
  129. Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty*
  130. Santa in the City by Tiffany D. Jackson*
  131. Uni the Unicorn in the Real World by Paris Rosenthal*
  132. Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder*
  133. The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor