2010 Black History Month Recommended Reading List Elementary (Grades PreK-3)
- Red Dancing Shoes, Denise Lewis Patrick and James E. Ransome
- I Dream of Trains, Angela Johnson The Moon Over Star, Dianna Hutts Aston Let It Shine, Ashley Bryan
- Before John Was a Jazz Giant, Carole Boston Weatherford Frederick Douglass: Leader against Slavery, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Elementary (Grades 4-5)
Especially Heroes by Virginia L. Kroll Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories, Jan Greenberg The Wagon, Tony Johnston and James E. Ransome Against All Odds: Artist Dean Mitchell’s Story, Betty R. James Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, Nikki Grimes Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojouner Truth, Anne Rockwell I Have Heard of a Land, Joyce Carol Thomas Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, Andrea DavisPinkney Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
The Legend of Buddy Bush, Sheila P. Moses Days of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, Julius Lester Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, Tonya Bolden Dark Sons, Nikki Grimes The Road to Paris, Nikki Grimes Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Ben Carson Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson The Battle of Jericho, Sharon Draper
High School (Grades 9-12)
Copper Sun, Sharon Draper The Magnificent Twelve: Florida’s Black Junior Colleges, Walter L. Smith, Ph.D. Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem, Marilyn Nelson Carver: A Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, Walter Dean Myers Mississippi Challenge, Mildred Pitts Walter Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement, Lillie Patters The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (Grades 10 and up)
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