First Come the Zebra
by Lynne Barasch
ISBN: 9781600603655
$18.95 Hardcover

Framed by the annual great migration of animals to Kenya, First Come the Zebra is the story of two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, who find a way to overcome their traditional rivalries to become friends.

Bird
by Zetta Elliott
illustrated by Shadra Strickland
ISBN: 9781600602412
$19.95 Hardcover

Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfather’s death and his brother’s drug addiction. In time, Bird finds his own special somethin’ and wings to fly.

The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
The Story of Jimmy Winkfield

by Crystal Hubbard
illustrated by Robert McGuire
ISBN: 9781584302742
$17.95 Hardcover

A vivacious hero from a little-known chapter of American sports history gallops onto the page. This is the story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing’s all-time great jockeys and the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1902.

Brothers in Hope
The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

by Mary Williams
illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
ISBN: 9781584302322
$18.95 Hardcover

Eight-year-old Garang unites with thousands of other orphaned boys to walk to safety in a refugee camp in Ethiopia and then Kenya, after war destroys their villages in southern Sudan. Based on true events.

John Lewis in the Lead
A Story of the Civil Rights Movement

by James Haskins & Kathleen Benson
illustrated by Benny Andrews
ISBN: 9781584302506
$17.95 Hardcover

How does an Alabama sharecropper's son grow up to help change his world? This engaging picture book profiles John Lewis, one of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders of the 1960s, who was involved in the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, and the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery.

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