Hello friends,

Black lives matter. Books by Black authors matter. Here are a dozen middle grade books I know and love:

Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia, followed by P.S. Be Eleven, and Gone Crazy in Alabama

The Great Green Heist by Varian Johnson, followed by To Catch a Cheat, and The Parker Inheritance

Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

The Watson’s Go to Birmingham, 1963  by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

With gratitude,

Anne