A complete list of 2021 releases can be found here
5 Oct Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert. Balzer + Bray
5 Oct Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies by S.D. Nelson. Abrams Books for Young Readers
5 Oct Dreams of My Father Young People’s Edition: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barak Obama. Delacorte
5 Oct Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood by Brittney Cooper et al. Norton Young Readers
5 Oct The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo. Underlined
5 Oct Once More Upon A Time by Roshani Chokshi. Sourcebook Casablanca
5 Oct Playing the Cards You’re Dealt by Varian Johnson. Scholastic
5 Oct Punching Bag by Rex Ogle. Norton Young Readers
5 Oct Rise Up! How You Can Join the Fight Against Racism by Crystal Fleming. Holt
5 Oct Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illus. by Lisa Sterle. Greenwillow Books
5 Oct When Night Breaks. Janelle Angeles. Wednesday Books
5 Oct Why We Fly by Kimberly Jones and Gilley Segal. Sourcebook Fires
12 Oct Aristotle and Dante Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Simon and Schuster
12 Oct Black Artists Shaping the World by Sharna Jackson. Thames and Hudson
12 Oct Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim South by Wade Hudson. Crown Books
12 Oct Dragonblood Ring by Amparo Ortiz. Page Street Kids
12 Oct The Interplanetary Expedition of Mars Patel by Sheela Chari. Walker Books Us
12 Oct Jade Fire Gold by June C.L. Tan. HarperTeen
12 Oct The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker. Inyard
12 Oct Mighty Inside by Sundee Frazier. Levine Querido
12 Oct Polo Cowboy by G. Neri, illus. by Jesse Joshua Watson. Candlewick
12 Oct Recognize: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life ed. by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Hudson. Crown Books
12 Oct Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narváez Varela. Cinco Puntos
19 Oct Barakah Beats by Maleeha Siddiqui. Scholastic19 Oct Concealed by Christina Diaz Gonzalez. Scholastic
19 Oct Hunting the Stars by Cherie Dimaline. Amulet
19 Oct Keeping It Real by Paula Chase. Greenwillow
19 Oct The Last Chance for Logan County (A Legendary Alston Boys Adventure) by Lamar Giles, illus. by Derick Brooks. Versify
19 Oct Our Way Back to Always by Nina Moreno. Little, Brown
19 Oct The Witch Owl Parliament by David Bowles and Raúl the Third, coloring by Stacey Robinson, lettering by Damian Duffy. Tu Books
19 Oct Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood. Wednesday Books
26 Oct How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino, trans. by Bruno Navasky. Algonquin
26 Oct Living with Viola by Rosena Fung. Annick Press
26 Oct Marshmallow & Jordan by Alina Chau. First Second
26 Oct Miosotis Flores Never Forgets by Hilda Eunice Burgos. Tu Books
26 Oct Rest Easy by Warona Jolomba. Wattpad
26 Oct We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera. Bloomsbury
31 Oct Chances in Disguise by Diana J. Noble. Piñata Press
31 Oct Chronicles of a Luchador by Ray Villareal. Piñata Press
31 Oct Vincent Vetura and the Curse of the Weeping Woman by Xavier Garza. Piñata Press
Thank you for compiling this list! 🙏
-Jessica
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