Books I have read in 2021 (including picture books* and research**):
- King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
- I Talk Like a River by Jrodan Scott*
- My Very Favorite Books in the Whole Wide World by Malcolm Mitchell*
- Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho*
- Stella’s Stellar Hair by Yesenia Moises*
- Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (reread)
- Consent (for Kids!): Boundaries, Respect, and Being in Charge of YOU by Rachel Brian
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford*
- Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance edited by Bethany C. Morrow
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
- What About Worms!? (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!, #7) by Ryan T. Higgins*
- There is a Rainbow by Theresa Trinder*
- The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found by Karina Yan Glaser
- Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zore Neale Hurston by Alicia D. Williams*
- Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
- 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr.*
- Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham*
- When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
- Milo Reimagines the World by Matt de la Peña
- Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Méndez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh*
- Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst**
- Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford*
- Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School by Janet Halfmann*
- Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
- The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe by Sandra Nickel*
- The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
- The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Yes Day! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal*
- Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu (reread)
- A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
- Oona by Kelly DiPucchio*
- Starfish by Lisa Fipps
- Watercress by Andrea Wang*
- Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
- Zonia’s Rain Forest by Juana Martimez-Neal
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (reread)
- America, My Love, America, My Heart by Daria Peoples-Riley*
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (reread)
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
- The Anti-Racist Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez**
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Go with the Flow by Lily Williams
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J. K. Rowling (reread)
- Kiss Number 8 by Colleen A. F. Venable
- Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos*
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul
- What the Road Said by Cleo Wade*
- The Starkeeper by Faith Pray*
- Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
- Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
- The Awakening of Malcolm X by Tiffany D. Jackson and Ilyasah Shabazz
- Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
- Be You! by Peter H. Reynolds*
- Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabrina Khan
- Finding Junie Kim by Elleh Oh
- Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
- Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers by Thomas Newkirk**
- Switch by A. S. King
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
- Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
- Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration by Samara Cole Doyon*
- Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes by M. Colleen Cruz**
- The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
- Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
- The Only (Endling #3) by Katherine Applegate
- Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted by Damian Duffy
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris**
- Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Starfish by Lisa Fipps (reread)
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbiké-Ìyímídé
- What’s the Big Secret?: Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys by Laurene Krasny Brown*
- We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- The Tree in Me by Corinna Luyken*
- I Am a Kindness Hero by Jennifer Adams*
- What We’ll Build: Plans for Our Together Future by Oliver Jeffers*
- Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera*
- Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor by Kate Messner*
- Thao by Thao Lam*
- The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
- In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks by Don Brown
- What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey**
- Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community by Liz Kleinrock**
- Black Boy Joy edited by Kwame Mbalia
- Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly D. Tatum**
- Tristan Strong Keeps Punching by Kwame Mbalia
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
- Black Birds in the Sky: the Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
- Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
- Run: Book One by John Lewis
- The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish by Karina Yan Glaser
- Change Sings: a Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman*
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
- An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
- You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
- The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely
- Counting Descent by Clint Smith
- Willodeen by Katherine Applegate
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
- White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
- Room to Dream by Kelly Yang
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray
- The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Nikkolas Smith*
- The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker
- ME (Moth) by Amber McBride
- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo
- Roxy by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman
- Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel adapted by Andrew Donkin
- Something Good by Marcy Campbell*
- Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds
- Our Table by Peter H. Reynolds*
- Will by Will Smith
- Gladys the Magic Chicken by Adam Rubin*
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty*
- Santa in the City by Tiffany D. Jackson*
- Uni the Unicorn in the Real World by Paris Rosenthal*
- Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder*
- The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor