Looking at the books by and about Black and Brown boys in August. I’ve already added Black Boy Joy to my pile!

Brown Boy Nowhere by Sheeryl Lim. Groundwood Books
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood edited by Kwame Mbalia. Random/Delacorte
Mercury Boys by Chandra Prasad. Soho Teen
Zion Unmatched by Zion Clark, James S. Hirsch. Candlewick
The Champion (Contender series book 3) by Taran Matharu. Feiwel and Friends

AUGUST RELEASES

1 Aug Aquí era el paraíso (Here Was Paradise) by Humberto Ak’abal, illus. by Amelia Lau Carling. Groundwood Books
1 Aug Brown Boy Nowhere by Sheeryl Lim. Groundwood Books
3 Aug Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood edited by Kwame Mbalia. Random/Delacorte
3 Aug The Great Destroyers by Caroline Tung Richmond. Scholastic
3 Aug How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao. Bloomsbury YA
3 Aug Hurricane: My Story of Resilience by Salvador Gómez-Colón. Norton Young Readers
3 Aug Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai by Debbi Michiko Florence. Scholastic
3 Aug Mercury Boys by Chandra Prasad. Soho Teen
3 Aug The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad. Margaret K. McElderry Books
3 Aug Zion Unmatched by Zion Clark, James S. Hirsch. Candlewick
10 Aug The Champion (Contender series book 3) by Taran Matharu. Feiwel and Friends
10 Aug How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland. Simon Pulse
10 Aug Manatee’s Best Friend by Sylvia Liu. Scholastic
10 Aug The Many Meanings of Meilan by Andrea Wang. Kokila
10 Aug Rise Up from the Embers by Sara Raasch and Kristen Simmons. Balzer+Bray
17 Aug Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Veronica Chambers and the New York Times. Versify
17 Aug The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. Levine Queride
17 Aug Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America, edited by Margarita Longoria. Philomel Books
17 Aug Threads of Peace by Uma Krishnaswami. Atheneum
31 Aug Dovey Undaunted : A Black Woman Breaks Barries in the Law, the Military and the Ministry by Tonya Bolden. Norton Young Readers
31 Aug Neverforgotten by Alejandra Algorta, trans. by Aida Salazar, illus. by Iván Rickenmann. Levine Querido