Dream Big Dreams: Photographs from Barack Obama's Inspiring and Historic Presidency
10 best books like Dream Big Dreams: Photographs from Barack Obama's Inspiring and Historic Presidency (Pete Souza): Dreamers, The Undefeated, Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug, There Are No Bears in This Bakery, Sulwe, 24 Hours in Nowhere, Let the Children March, My Hair is a Garden, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
| Author | Yuyi Morales |
| ISBN | 0823440559 |
In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.
She...
The Undefeated
| Author | Kwame Alexander |
| ISBN | 1328780961 |
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma...
Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug
| Author | Jonathan Stutzman |
The illustrations are wonderful, the dialogue is snappy and humorous, and I think it wonderfully touched on mental health.
Basically the little dudes friend - Stegosaurus - is sad and Rex goes to a lot of dino’s to try and learn how to hug so he can cheer...
| Author | Julia Sarcone-Roach |
| ISBN | 0399556664 |
A tough gumshoe of a cat--the name's Muffin--protects his territory: The Little Bear Bakery. But there are no bears here. Not on Muffin's watch.
One...
Sulwe
| Author | Lupita Nyong’o |
Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school....
24 Hours in Nowhere
| Author | Dusti Bowling |
Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona,...
| Author | Monica Clark-Robinson |
| ISBN | 0544704525 |
I couldn't go to their schools.
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.
There were so many things I couldn't do.
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...
My Hair is a Garden
| Author | Cozbi A. Cabrera |
| Author | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0062742469 |
They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
| Author | Irene Latham |
How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham,...
Don't Touch My Hair!
| Author | Sharee Miller |
| ISBN | 0316562580 |
It seems that wherever Aria goes, someone wants to touch her hair. In the street, strangers reach for her fluffy curls; and...
| Author | James L. Swanson |
| ISBN | 0545723337 |
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...
| Author | Samya Kullab |
| ISBN | 1770859829 |
From the pen of former Lebanon Star reporter Samya Kullab comes a breathtaking and hard-hitting story of one family's struggle to survive in the face of war, displacement, poverty and relocation.
Escape from Syria is a fictionalized account...
| Author | Chris Barton |
| Author | Barry Wittenstein |
| ISBN | 1632895579 |
This is the evolution of what we now know as our go to bandage. They even...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1452162816 |
She's in New York.
She's holding a torch.
And she's in mid-stride, moving forward.
But why?
In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris...
Just Jaime
| Author | Terri Libenson |
Friends. Frenemies. Middle school...
The last day of seventh grade has Jaime and Maya wondering who their real friends are.
Jaime...
You Are My Friend: The Story of Mister Rogers and His Neighborhood
| Author | Aimee Reid |
| ISBN | 1419736175 |
Mister Rogers is one of the most beloved television personalities, but before he was the man who brought us Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was just little Freddie Rogers. Though...