Celebrating Winter, Black History Month, and Valentine’s Day
Angela’s Glacier
By Jordan Scott
Illustrated by Diana Sudyka
Ages 4-8
A luminously-illustrated love story of a girl growing up in the shadow of a glacier that’s always there to listen.
Groundhug Day
By Anne Marie Pace
Illustrated by Christopher Denise
Ages 3-5
This season of love-inspired picture book is perfect for readers who are bursting for spring or snuggling up for six more weeks of winter.
Harold Hates to Hibernate
By Vern Kousky
Ages 3-7
Harold loves the springtime flowers and spending time with friends on summer days. In the fall, he loves the bright, bold colors. But now winter is coming, and Harold will have to go to sleep… only he really doesn’t want to.
Will’s Race for Home
By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Ages 8-12
It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and Will’s family is tired of working on land they don’t get to own. What follows is a journey from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others to the place where land is free – if they can get to it fast enough.
Black Lives: Great Minds of Science
By Tonya Bolden
Illustrated by David Wilkerson
Ages 8-12
This fun and accessible graphic novel for middle-grade readers brings to light the lives of great but lesser-known Black doctors, engineers, mathematicians, biologists, and other STEM professionals.
Mama’s Chicken and Dumplings
By Dionna L. Mann
Ages 8-12
Growing up in segregated 1930s Charlottesville, ten-year-old Allie is determined to find a man for her mama to marry – but not just any man will do!
As You Wish
By Nashae Jones
Ages 10-14
In this sweet, funny romance with a dash of magic, eighth-grader Birdie has big plans to get a boyfriend this school year, but the appearance of a (supposedly) mythical West African god after a fight with her best friend threatens Birdie’s plans – and her reality as she knows it.
We Are Your Children Too
By P. O’Connell Pearson
Ages 10-14
In this revelatory and all-too-timely nonfiction book, P. O’Connell Pearson explores a deeply troubling chapter in American history: Prince Edward County, a northern Virginia town whose white school board elected to close the public schools rather than integrate them, with ripple effects that still impact the county today.
Ruin Road
By Lamar Giles
Ages 12+
Accomplished football star Cade Webster often worries that he’s too much. Too big, too fast, too ambitious, too Black. One night, Cade tells a pawn store shopkeeper he wishes people would stop acting so scared around him, and his wish is granted…
