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Black voices for older kids

Meet Black authors through terrific books about Black people or history. For Grades 4 to 8 and everyone who likes great stories or inspiring information books.

Burnaby Public Library

91 items

  • BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — j Alex
  • My Antarctica

    True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More

    Neri, Greg
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2024. — j919.89 Ner
  • BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2024. — j Mago
  • BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023. — j Bagl
  • BookNew York, NY : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — j Ever
  • BookNew York : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2023. — j920 Ali
  • You Are My Pride

    a Love Letter From Your Motherland

    Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
    BookNew York : Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2023] — je Weat
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — j Chri
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — j Comr
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — j920 Ang
  • Star Child

    a Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

    Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
    BookNew York : Dutton Children's Books, 2022. — j813 But
  • Blue

    a History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

    Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua,
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] — j535.6 Bre
  • BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022. — j Lock
  • Choosing Brave

    How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

    Joy, Angela, 1975-
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2022. — j920 Til