Juneteenth Resources
We've brought together a wide range of resources focused on Juneteenth. Whether you're discussing current events with someone else or learning on your own, the following books are linked to our catalog for you to use. You can place holds on items to check them out through our catalog.
NONFICTION BOOKS
Kids
- The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Kids Nonfiction- J 973.049 HAN)
- What is Juneteenth? by Nancy Sanders (Kids Nonfiction - J 973.049 SAN)
- Let's clap, jump, sing & shout ; dance, spin & turn it out! by Pat McKissack (Kids Nonfiction - J 790 MCK)
- What is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel (Kids Nonfiction - J 394.263 JEW)
- Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation by Patrice Sherman (Kids Nonfiction - J 973.7 SHE)
- Days of Jubilee : the end of slavery in the United States by Pat McKissack (Kids Nonfiction- J 973.049 MCK)
- Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (Kids Nonfiction- J 973.049 NEL)
- Stamped (for kids): racism, antiracism, and you adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul (Kids Nonfiction - 305.8 CHE)
- Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds (YA Nonfiction - YA 305.8 REY)
- Rise up! : how you can join the fight against White supremacy by Crystal Marie Fleming (YA Nonfiction- YA 305.800973 FLE)
- Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Adult Nonfiction - 973.0496 FOU)
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Adult Nonfiction - 304.8 WIL)
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Adult Nonfiction - 973 HAN)
- On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed (Adult Nonfiction - 394.263 GOR)
- Stony the road: Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates (Adult Nonfiction - 973.0496 GAT)
- Black ghost of empire : the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation by Kris Manjapra (Adult Nonfiction - 306.362 MAN)
- Watermelon and red birds: a cookbook for Juneteenth and Black celebrations by Nicole Taylor (Adult Nonfiction - 641.59296 TAY)
- How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America by Clint Smith (Adult Nonfiction- 306.362 SMI)
FICTION BOOKS
Kids
- I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl (Dear America series) (Kids Fic Series - J HAN DA)
- Finding Freedom (American Girl Beforever series) by Connie Rose Porter (Kids Fic Series - J POR AG)
- Tristan Strong series (Punches a hole in the sky, Destroys the world, Keeps punching) by Kwame Mbalia (Kids Fic- J MBA)
- All different now : Juneteenth, the first day of freedom by Angela Johnson (Picture & Easy Book E JOH)
- Black Boy Joy (Kids Fic- J BLA)
- Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine (Picture and Easy Book- E LEV)
- M is for melanin: a celebration of the black child by Tiffany Rose (Picture and Easy Book- E ROS)
- Black is a rainbow color by Angela Joy (Picture and Easy Book- E JOY)
- Black enough : stories of being young & black in America (YA Fiction - YA BLA)
- So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow (YA Fiction- YA PET)
- Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron (YA Fiction- YA COR)
- Seeds of America Trilogy (Chains, Forge, Ashes) by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA Fiction- YA AND)
- Ain’t burned all the bright by Jason Reynolds (YA Fiction- YA REY)
- Recognize!: an anthology honoring and amplifying Black life (YA Fiction- YA HUD)
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Adult Fiction- Gyasi)
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon (Adult Sci Fic - Sci Fic Solomon)
- Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid by Jason Mott (Adult Fiction - Fic Mott)
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Adult Fiction - Fic Whitehead)
- Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (Adult Fiction - Fic Atakora)
- Kindred by Octavia Butler (Adult Fiction- Fic Butler)
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Adult Fiction- Fic Harris)
- Some sing, some cry by Ntozake Shange (Adult Fiction- Fic Shange)