BIPOC Central

Books featuring BIPOC characters where ethnicity, race, and/or culture are an explicit focus of the story.

Change Sings: A Children's Anthem

Amanda Gorman

Loren Long

Children imagine how music, kindness, and collective action can make change in the world around them.

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Harlem Grown

Tony Hillery

Jessie Hartland

The true story of a Harlem school garden that became a source of food, pride, and neighborhood change.

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A Place Inside of Me

Zetta Elliott

Noa Denmon

A Black boy moves through layered feelings about his neighborhood and the violence that surrounds it.

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Nana Akua Goes to School

Tricia Elam Walker

April Harrison

A girl worries about classmates staring at her grandmother?s facial scars before learning the story behind them.

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The First Blade of Sweetgrass

Suzanne Greenlaw; Gabriel Frey

Nancy Baker

A Maliseet girl gathers sweetgrass with her grandmother and learns about care, tradition, and reciprocity.

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I Sang You Down from the Stars

Tasha Spillett-Sumner

Michaela Goade

An expectant mother gathers sacred items for her unborn child in a story of love, ceremony, and belonging.

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Powwow Day

Traci Sorell

Marlena Myles

A Native girl recovering from illness waits for the powwow and finds strength in family and community tradition.

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Round Is a Tortilla

Roseanne Greenfield Thong

John Parra

Shapes come alive through foods, objects, and scenes rooted in Latino culture and everyday family life.

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Mango, Abuela, and Me

Meg Medina

Angela Dominguez

A girl and her Spanish-speaking grandmother find connection through love, patience, and a parrot named Mango.

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Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story

Danielle Greendeer; Anthony Perry; Alexis Bunten

Garry Meeches Sr.

A Wampanoag-centered retelling of Thanksgiving that restores Indigenous perspective, food knowledge, and history.

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