Picture Books
Every-Day Dress-Up by Selina Alk
Born to Ride by Larissa Theule
Love is Powerful by Heather Dean Brewer
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
Biographies
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress by Alicia D. Williams
Talkin' About Bessie : the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: the Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca
Chapter Books
The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
Betty before X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Step up to the plate, Maria Singh by Uma Krishnaswami
Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar
Previous year’s list: 2021