Rising Voices: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys Title List

This expertly curated collection of fiction and informational texts celebrates Black and Latino boys and men as role models, thinkers, and leaders. These texts help foster a more comprehensive understanding of the world we live in while developing critical thinking skills and supporting purposeful literacy instruction. Each grade-level library comprises 50 books in total, with two copies of each of the 25 titles. Grades K–5 Title List

Kindergarten | Title

Author(s)

Illustrator(s)

Looking for Bongo

Eric Velasquez*

Pablo’s Tree

Pat Mora*

Cecily Lang

Pedro and the Shark

Fran Manuskin

Tammie Lyon

Tortillas Are Round/Las tortillas son redondas (poetry)

Cynthia Well

John Parra*

¡Vámonos! Let’s Go!

René Colato Laínez*

Joe Cepeda*

Green is a Chile Pepper/El Chile es verde (poetry)

Roseanne Greenfield Thong

John Parra*

ABeCedarios: Mexican Folk Art: ABCs in English and Spanish

Cynthia Well

Moisés and Armando Jiménez*

¡Fiesta!

Ginger Foglesong Guy

René King Moreno

Island Counting 1 2 3

Frané Lessac

Opuestos: Mexican Folk Art: Opposites in English and Spanish

Cynthia Well

Quirino and Martín Santiago*

Bippity Bop Barbershop

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley*

E.B. Lewis*

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Chris Raschka

Jackie Robinson and the Big Game

Dan Gutman

Elaine Garvin

The King of Kindergarten

Derrick Barnes*

Vanessa Brantley Newton*

Sing, Don’t Cry

Angela Dominguez*

Fire! ¡Fuego! Brave Bomberos

Susan Middleton Elya*

Dan Santat*

The Field

Baptiste Paul*

Jacqueline Alcántara*

I Hate to Be Sick!

Aamir Lee Bermiss*

Ken Wilson-Max*

Niño Wrestles the World

Yuyi Morales*

Pass the Ball, Mo!

David A. Adler

Sam Ricks

* Denotes a Black, Latino, or Latina author or illustrator.

Rising Voices: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys

We March

Shane W. Evans*

Draw!

Raúl Colón*

Every Little Thing

Cedella Marley*

Vanessa Brantley Newton*

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King

Jean Marzollo

J. Brian Pinkney*

Hey Black Child (poetry)

Useni Eugene Perkins*

Bryan Collier*

Grade 1 | Title

Author(s)

Illustrator(s)

All the Way to Havana

Margarita Engle*

Mike Curato*

Brave/Valiente

Stacy McAnulty

Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

Get a Hit, Mo!

David A. Adler

Sam Ricks

I Can’t Take a Bath!

Irene Smalls*

Aaron Boyd*

Last Stop on Market Street

Matt de la Peña*

Christian Robinson*

My Cold Plum Lemon: Pie Bluesy Mood (poetry)

Tameka Fryer Brown*

Shane W. Evans*

Baseball on Mars/Béisbol en Marte

Rafael Rivera, Jr.* and Tim Hoppey

Christina Rodriguez*

My People

Langston Hughes*

Charles R. Smith Jr.*

A Team Stays Together!

Tony and Lauren Dungy* Newton*

Vanessa Brantley

Wiggling Pockets/Los bolsillos saltarines

Pat Mora*

Maribel Suárez Jiménez*

Martin’s Big Words

Doreen Rappaport

Bryan Collier*

The Adventures of Sparrowboy

Brian Pinkney*

Barack Obama

Jodie Shepherd

(photos)

Basketball Superstar Stephen Curry

Jon M. Fishman

(photos)

Pelé, King of Soccer/Pelé, El rey de fútbol

Monica Brown*

Rudy Gutiérrez*

One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree

Daniel Bernstrom*

Brendan Wenzel

A Beach Tail

Karen Lynn Williams

Floyd Cooper*

First Grade Hero

Fran Manuskin

Tammie Lyon

Jabari Jumps

Gaia Cornwall

The One Day House

Julia Durango

Bianca Diaz*

Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You

Carole Boston Weatherford*

James E. Ransome*

Book Fiesta!

Pat Mora*

Rafael López*

Brown Boy, Brown Boy, What Can You Be?

Ameshia Arthur*

Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box

Michael S. Bandy* and Eric Stein

James E. Ransome*

Salam Alaikum: A Message of Peace

Harris J*

Ward Jenkins

* Denotes a Black, Latino, or Latina author or illustrator.

Rising Voices: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys

Grade 2 | Title

Author(s)

Illustrator(s)

Looking Like Me

Walter Dean Myers*

Christopher Myers*

Butterfly Boy

Virginia Kroll

Gerardo Suzán*

Freddie Ramos Springs Into Action

Jacqueline Jules

Michael Benítez*

The Haunted House Next Door

Andres Miedoso

Victor Rivas

Where’s Rodney?

Carmen Bogan*

Flloyd Cooper*

Tito Puente: Mambo King/Rey del Mambo

Monica Brown*

Rafael López*

Freedom in Congo Square

Carole Boston Weatherford*

R. Gregory Christie*

Playing Lotería/El juego de la Lotería

René Colato Laínez*

Jill Arena

Salsa: Un poema para cocinar/A Cooking Poem (poetry)

Jorge Argueta*

Duncan Tonatiuh*

Those Shoes

Maribeth Boelts

Noah Z. Jones

Martin’s Big Words

Doreen Rappaport

Bryan Collier*

Coquí in the City

Nomar Perez*

Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story

Susan Robeson*

Rod Brown*

Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Jennifer Berne

Lorraine Nam

Meet the New Spider-Man

Rory Keane

My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King III*

A.G. Ford*

The Word Collector

Peter H. Reynolds

Cosmo and the Robot

Brian Pinkney*

More Than Anything Else

Marie Bradby*

Chris K. Soentpiet

Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson

Sharon Robinson*

Kadir Nelson*

Imagine (poetry)

Juan Felipe Herrera*

Lauren Castillo*

Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community

Susan Verde

John Parra*

Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans

Phil Bildner

John Parra*

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Javaka Steptoe*

Javake Steptoe*

Tick Tock Banneker’s Clock

Shana Keller*

David C. Gardner

Grade 3 | Title

Author(s)

Illustrator(s)

EllRay Jakes is Magic!

Sally Warner

Brian Biggs

Freddie Ramos Makes a Splash

Jacqueline Jules

Miguel Benítez*

Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life

Jerdine Nolen*

Kadir Nelson*

Surf’s Up, Creepy Stuff

Andres Miedoso

Victor Rivas

* Denotes a Black, Latino, or Latina author or illustrator.

Rising Voices: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys

Luis Paints the World

Terry Farish

Oliver Dominguez*

Calvin Alexander Ramsey* and Bettye Stroud*

Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend

John Holyfield*

If the Shoe Fits

Gary Soto*

Terri Widener

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson* and Drew Nelson*

Juneteenth

Mark Schroder

Clemente!

Willie Perdomo*

Bryan Collier*

Grandma’s Gift

Eric Velasquez*

Big Papi David Ortiz

Joe Bubar

(photos)

Carter Reads the Newspaper

Deborah Hopkinson

Don Tate*

The Lifesaving Adventure of Sam Deal, Shipwreck Rescuer

Candice Ransom

Zachary Trover

Nelson Mandela

Barbara Kramer

(photos)

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

Andrea Davis Pinkney*

Brian Pinkney*

Digging for Words

Angela Burke Kunkel

Paola Escobar*

Don’t Disturb the Dinosaurs

Ada Hopper

Sam Ricks

Float Like a Butterfly (poetry)

Ntozake Shange*

Edel Rodriguez*

The Hallelujah Flight

Phil Bildner

John Holyfield*

I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Lauren Tarshis

Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson

Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer

Frank Morrison*

Long Shot: Never Too Small to Dream Big

Chris Paul*

Frank Morrison*

Play Ball!

Jorge Posada*

Raúl Colón*

Seeing Into Tomorrow (poetry)

Richard Wright*

Nina Crews* (photos)

The Boy Who Touched the Stars/El niño que alcanzó las estrellas

José M. Hernandez*

Steven James Petruccio

Grade 4 | Title

Author(s)

Illustrator(s)

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Derrick Barnes*

Gordon C. James*

Donovan’s Double Trouble

Monalisa DeGross*

Amy Bates

Dragons in a Bag

Zetta Elliot*

Geneva B*

Earthquake Shock

Marlane Kennedy

Erwin Madrid

Long Shot

Mike Lupica

The Zero Degree Zombie Zone

Patrik Henry Bass*

Jerry Craft*

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, And Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson*

R. Gregory Christie*

The Banana-Leaf Ball

Katie Smith Milway

Shane W. Evans*

* Denotes a Black, Latino, or Latina author or illustrator.

Rising Voices: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys

Finding Langston

Lesa Cline-Ransome*

Forest World (poetry)

Margarita Engle*

When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

Laban Carrick Hill*

Theodore Taylor III*

Nelson Mandela

Kadir Nelson*

Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist

Susan Wood

Duncan Tonatiuh*

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Eric-Shabazz Larkin*

Stephen Curry

Eric Braun

(photos)

Dr. José Luis Carballido* and Dr. Diego Pol*

Titanosaur

Florencia Gigena*

La Frontera: El viaje con papa/My Journey with Papa

Deborah Mills and Alfredo Alva*

Claudia Navarro*

Black Panther: Battle for Wakanda

Brandon T. Snider

Caravan Studios

Delivering Justice

Jim Haskins*

Benny Andrews*

March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World

Christine King Farris*

London Ladd*

Javaka Steptoe*, R. Gregory Christie*, Ekua Holmes*, Floyd Cooper* et al*

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy (poetry)

Tony Medina*

Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School

Kim Baker*

Tim Probert

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

Chris Barton

Don Tate*

Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Jim Haskins*

Eric Velasquez*

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* and Raymond Obstfeld

What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

Ben Boos* and A.G. Ford*

Grade 5 | Title

Author(s)

Illustrator(s)

Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish

Pablo Cartaya*

Charlie Hernández & The League of Shadows

Ryan Calejo*

Nothing Up My Sleeve

Diana López*

The Season of Styx Malone

Kekla Magoon*

Slam Dunk

Amar’e Stoudemire*

Tim Jessel

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

Rita Williams-Garcia*

Frank Morrison*

Ghost

Jason Reynolds*

Maximilian & The Mystery of the Guardian Angel

Xavier Garza*

Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library (poetry)

Carole Boston Weatherford*

Eric Velasquez*

Yes! We Are Latinos (poetry)

Alma Flor Ada* and F. Isabel Campoy* David Diaz*

* Denotes a Black, Latino, or Latina author or illustrator.

Rising Voices: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys

The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just

Mélina Mangal*

Luisa Uribe*

Building an Orchestra of Hope

Carmen Oliver

Luisa Uribe*

Jose Altuve

Jon M. Fishman

(photos)

Saint Louis Armstrong Beach

Brenda Woods*

The Civil Rights Movement

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich*

(photos)

Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World

Gary Golio*

Rudy Gutierrez*

The Journey of Little Charlie

Christopher Paul Curtis*

New Kid

Jerry Craft*

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems (poetry)

David Bowles*

Tuskegee Airmen

Matt Doedon

(photos)

The Great Migration: An American Story

Jacob Lawrence*

Ambassador

William Alexander

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Carole Boston Weatherford*

Jamey Christoph

John Lewis: Courage in Action

Matt Doedon

(photos)

Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior

Ed Clayton*

Donald Bermudez*

* Denotes a Black, Latino, or Latina author or illustrator.

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