Book List

Book Recommendations

By Eamon and Maggie

LCTA Changemakers recommends the following books for April. These books feature an African American lead character, and/or African American author.

    1. Look Both Ways, Jason Reynolds. This book is about 10 different African American kids and what happens after the school bell rings!
    2. As Brave As You, Jason Reynolds. This book is about a young African American boy who leaves New York City and goes down south to spend the summer with his brother and grandparents. 
    3. One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams Garcia. This book is about three sisters who go to Oakland, California, during the Civil Rights Movement in 1968 to meet their  mother who abandoned them
    4. P.S Be Eleven,Rita Williams Garcia. This is the second book in the series about three sisters who spent the summer in Oakland, California, with their mother and the Black Panthers and now return home to Alabama with new ideas that don’t sit well with Big Ma!
    5. Gone Crazy In Alabama, Rita Williams Garcia. This is the last book in the series where the Gaither sisters are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and hopefully reunite her with her half-sister who she hasn’t spoken to in years.
    6. I Am Enough by Grace  Byers. Recommended for ages: 3-7. This book is about loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another.
    7. Something Happened in Our Town, Marianne Celano. Recommended for ages: 5-10. This book is about 2 families, one black, one white. They discuss the death of a black man in their town. He died from police shootings.
    8. For Black Girls Like Me, Mariam J. Lockington. This book is about a girl named Makeda June Kirkland who is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out.