AIN'T NOTHING BUT A MAN: MY QUEST TO FIND THE REAL JOHN HENRY by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson, National Geographic, January 2008, 64p. ISBN: 978-1-4263-0000-4

BRING ME SOME APPLES AND I'LL MAKE YOU A PIE: A STORY ABOUT EDNA LEWIS by Robbin Gourley, Clarion, 48p., January 2009, ISBN: 978-0-618-15836-2

CHAINS by Laurie Halse Anderson, Simon & Schuster, October 2008, 314p., ISBN: 1-4169-0585-5

DAY OF TEARS: A NOVEL IN DIALOGUE by Julius Lester, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, April, 2005, ISBN: 0-7868-0490-4

ELIJAH OF BUXTON by Christopher Paul Curtis, Scholastic Press, October 2007, ISBN: 978-0-439-02344-3

FIGHT ON: MARY CHURCH TERRELL'S BATTLE FOR INTEGRATION by Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin, Clarion Books, ISBN 0-618-13349-6

FLYGIRL by Sherri L. Smith, Putnam, January 2009, 288p., ISBN: 978-0-399-24709-5

FREEDOM RIDERS: JOHN LEWIS AND JIM ZWERG ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Ann Bausum, National Geographic, January 2006

FREEDOM WALKERS: THE STORY OF THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT by Russell Freedman, Holiday House, September 2006, ISBN: 0-8234-2031-0

HANK AARON AND THE HOME RUN THAT CHANGED AMERICA by Tom Stanton, HarperCollins/William Morrow, March 2004, ISBN 0-0-06-057976-5

HARLEM SUMMER by Walter Dean Myers, Scholastic Press, March 2007, ISBN: 0-439-36843-8  

A HEART DIVIDED by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld, Random House/Delacorte, March 2004, ISBN: 0-385-32749-8; 0-385-90039-2

HOW I FOUND THE STRONG: A CIVIL WAR STORY by Margaret McMullan, Houghton Mifflin, April 2004, ISBN: 0-618-35008-X

JOHN LEWIS: FROM FREEDOM RIDER TO CONGRESSMAN by Christine M. Hill, Enslow Publishers, July 2002, 128 p., b/w photos, timeline 

THE LAND by Mildred D. Taylor, Phyllis Fogelman Books, September 2001  

THE LIBERATION OF GABRIEL KING by K.L. Going, Putnam, June 2005, ISBN: 0-399-23991-X  

LIZZIE BRIGHT AND THE BUCKMINSTER BOY by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion Books, May 2004, ISBN 0-618-43929-3 

MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: WALK  TOGETHER, CHILDREN, AND DON'T YOU GROW WEARY by Elizabeth Partridge, Viking,  October 2009, 80p., ISBN: 978-0-670-01189-6

THE OLD AFRICAN by Julius Lester, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, 80 pages, PenguinPutnam/Dial, September 2005, ISBN: 0-8037-2564-7 

ONE CRAZY SUMMER by Rita Williams-Garcia, Harper Amistad, January 2010, 224p., ISBN: 978-0-06-076088-5; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-076089-2

REMEMBER LITTLE ROCK by Paul Robert Walker, National Geographic, January 2009, 64p., ISBN: 978-1-4263-0402-6  

THE ROCK AND THE RIVER by Kekla Magoon, Aladdin, January 2009, 290p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-7582-3

SHOW WAY by Jacqueline Woodson, Putnam, September 2005, ISBN: 0-399-23749-6

SIT-IN: HOW FOUR FRIENDS STOOD UP BY SITTING DOWN by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, ill., Little Brown, February 2010, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-316-07016-4

TWELVE ROUNDS TO GLORY: THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD ALI by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, Candlewick, UP BEFORE DAYBREAK: COTTON AND PEOPLE IN AMERICA by Deborah Hopkinson, Scholastic Nonfiction, April 2006, ISBN: 0-439-63901-8

THE VOICE THAT CHALLENGED A NATION: MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS by Russell Freedman. Clarion, May 2004. 128 pages. ISBN: 0-618-15976-2

WAKE UP OUR SOULS: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS by Tonya Bolden, Harry N. Abrams Inc., published in association with the Smithsonian American  

WE ARE THE SHIP: THE STORY OF NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL by Kadir Nelson, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, January 2008, 88p., ISBN: 0-7868-0832-2 

A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Philippe Lardy, Houghton Mifflin, March 2005, ISBN: 0-618-39752-3