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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Gr 1–5—A visually stunning picture book biography about modern art phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat...
Shadowshaper
Gr 7 Up—The 2015 SLJ Best Book follows Afro-Latina Sierra Santiago as she discovers that she's part of a long line of shadowshapers, people with the ability to infuse magic into their art in order to fight off demons...
The Trouble with Half a Moon
Gr 5–8—Ever since her brother's death, Dellie's life has been quiet and sad...
Draw!
PreS-Gr 3—Based on the Afro-Puerto Rican artist's childhood, beloved and award-winning illustrator Colón's wordless work, created with watercolor and colored pencils, depicts a sickly boy who uses his creativity to escape the confines of his bed...
Mama's Girl
Growing up in the 1970s in a home plagued by violence, divorce, and double standards, the award-winning author (who wrote this memoir in her 20s) struggled to exceed low expectations and a fraught relationship with her mother...
Grandma's Records/Los discos de mi abuela
Gr 1–3—Each year, a boy spends the summer with his grandmother in her apartment in Spanish Harlem listening to her records...
Secret Saturdays
Gr 5–8—Friends Justin and Sean, both 12, live in the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn, are Puerto Rican and African American, and have absentee fathers...
On a Clear Day
Gr 7–10—In one of his last books, the former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature ventured into the dystopian genre...
Show and Prove
Gr 8 Up—Set in 1983 in the South Bronx, this coming-of-age tale by Afro-Latina Quintero presents the friendship between African American Smiles and Puerto Rican Nike against the backdrop of hip-hop, Reaganomics, and war in the Middle East...
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