Rising Voices: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys Booklist

This Rising Voices Library contains engaging fiction, poetry, and informational texts that celebrate Black and Latino boys. Creating a supportive and equitable classroom community can benefit children from all backgrounds by promoting respect and understanding. 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.

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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*

Side by Side: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/ Lado a Lado: La Historia de Dolores Huerta y César Chávez

Monica Brown*

Joe Cepeda*

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.

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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*

César Chavez: Champion for Civil Rights

Anne Roome and Joanne Mattern

(photos)

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.

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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*

Cesar Chavez

Josh Gregory

(photos)

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.

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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.

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The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just

Mélina Mangal*

Luisa Uribe*

César ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! (poetry)

Carmen R. Bernier Grand*

David Diaz*

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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