Nonfiction

This biography imagines the childhood reading life that helped shape writer and scholar Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

Audrey Faye Hendricks's determination to join the Birmingham Children's March turns a civil-rights chapter into a child-centered story of courage.

A young girl's real-life response to Michelle Obama's portrait opens into a story about art, possibility, and being seen.

Anna Atkins's fascination with plants and cyanotype photography becomes a story about science, art, and innovation.

Eleanor Roosevelt emerges as a restless, outspoken public figure who helped reshape what leadership could look like.

A school bus carries children through Rosa Parks's story and the wider history of Montgomery's bus boycott.

As Lillian climbs a hill to vote, the story traces generations of Black American struggle and progress around the ballot.

Poetic text and collage bring Fannie Lou Hamer's life, courage, and civil-rights activism into view for young readers.

A tiny owl accidentally becomes part of Rockefeller Center's Christmas story and then begins a new chapter in the wild.

Harvey Milk and Gilbert Baker's collaboration around the rainbow flag becomes an inviting introduction to pride, protest, and belonging.