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The Snowy Day

By: Ezra Jack Keats
Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Length: 3 minutes

Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal!
 
No story has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snow Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child’s wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. The adventures of a little boy... Read more

The Snowy Day

By: Ezra Jack Keats
Narrated by: Jane Harvey
Length: 5 minutes

A small boy's enchantment with a city's snowfall has him making snow angels and snowballs, sliding down snow mountains - and looking forward to going outside again. Read more

Tristan Strong Keeps Punching

Tristan Strong

By: Kwame Mbalia
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the finale of Kwame Mbalia's trilogy, in which Tristan Strong faces off with his archenemy, King Cotton, once and for all. "Imagine if you combined Anansi the Spider, John Henry, and Marvel into, like, one book."-- New York Times best-selling author and Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander After reuniting... Read more

Tristan Strong Destroys the World (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2)

Tristan Strong: Book #2

By: Kwame Mbalia
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Bestselling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia. Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother... Read more

Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky

Tristan Strong: Book #1

By: Kwame Mbalia
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.

Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he... Read more

The People Could Fly

American Black Folktales

By: Virginia Hamilton
Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), a giant in the world of children's literature, was the first African-American woman to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. In her prize-winning anthology of American Black folktales, The People Could Fly, Hamilton has gathered and retold a collection of... Read more

Things We Couldn't Say

By: Jay Coles
Narrated by: Sheldon Best
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he... Read more

Rise to the Sun

By: Leah Johnson
Narrated by: Lexi Underwood & Alaska Jackson
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

“Leah Johnson is officially an auto-buy for me. I honest to goodness could not stop marking this book, nor did I realize just how much I needed it. From the off, Toni and Olivia's journeys were some sort of catharsis, healing my soul even after only two chapters. By the end, my eyes were run over and my cheeks were salty. This one's for the... Read more

Playing the Cards You're Dealt

By: Varian Johnson
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

“With a deft hand, Johnson shows us there's no such thing as "too young" when it comes to questioning big ideas like manhood, or even family.” –Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Look Both Ways and StampedLiterary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor-winning author of The Parker... Read more

When the World Turned Upside Down

By: K. Ibura
Narrated by: Channie Waites
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

A heartwarming, feel-good story of friendship and overcoming adversity in a time of COVID, this is a book about community, givingback, and understanding the world around us through the power of generosity from debut author K. Ibura.With one little announcement from their fourth-grade teacher, Shayla, Liam, Ben, and Ai's world turned upside... Read more

King and the Dragonflies

By: Kacen Callender
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

“Kingston (King) James and his parents are grieving the loss of Khalid-- King's older brother. When Khalid was alive and the two shared a bedroom, he would talk in his sleep, telling his younger brother stories about the universe and its magic. King continues to see Khalid in his dreams, and is convinced Khalid has transformed into a dragonfly.... Read more

Twins: A Graphic Novel

By: Varian Johnson
Narrated by: Ahnya O'Riordan, Grace Capeless, Mashari Bain, Malcolm Bowen, Antoinette Comer, Andre Blake & Armand Rufen-Blanchette
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel!Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth... Read more

The Forgotten Girl

By: India Hill Brown
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

A spooky original #ownvoices ghost story with fantastic characters, chilling scenes--and a timely and important storyline about reclaiming an abandoned segregated cemetery.When Iris Rose makes a snow angel on an abandoned grave, it opens up a connection to the afterlife!She's summoned a ghost named Avery who wants to be remembered. Iris is... Read more

The Girl in the Lake

By: India Hill Brown
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

In the tradition of Wait Till Helen Comes, another truly chilling (and historically inspired) ghost story from the talentedauthor of The Forgotten Girl.Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and theircousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not.Bugs, bad cell reception, and... Read more

Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges

By: Ruby Bridges
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

This brand-new recording... Read more

All Because You Matter

By: Tami Charles
Narrated by: Tami Charles
Length: 16 minutes

A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter, that they have always mattered, and they always will, from powerhouse rising star author Tami Charles and esteemed, award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier.Instant New York Times bestseller!The #1 Amazon Best Children's Book of 2020A... Read more

We Shall Overcome

By: Bryan Collier
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 16 minutes

A celebration of the gospel anthem and Civil Rights protest song "We Shall Overcome", masterfully brought to life byCaldecott Honor recipient and a nine-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Bryan Collier."We Shall Overcome" is one of the most recognizable anthems of the Civil Rights movement, widely performed at protests and rallies to... Read more