If you’re in need of new and diverse books for your students this fall, read on!
We are partnering with Lee & Low Books to provide $250 in diverse books as part of our Racial Equity in Schools Fund. Bonus: Each book also includes an online teacher guide to make the most of sharing it with your students. Check out this blog post to hear from a teacher how diverse books have helped her students.
These diverse book bundles will be shipped directly to teachers’ schools and will include titles below based on popularity/demand/availability or titles subject to availability.
Note: The Racial Equity in Schools grant application for fall 2020 is now closed. To learn about grant opportunities as they become available, please register your classroom. Learn more here.
Pre-K Bundle Book Titles
- Baby Born
- Bein’ with You This Way
- Black All Around
- Butterflies for Kiri
- David’s Drawings
- Elizabeti’s Doll
- Giving Thanks
- How Far Do You Love Me?
- I Had a Hippopotamus
- I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el rÌo me ama
- Lend a Hand: Poems About Giving
- My Colors, My World / Mis colores, mi mundo
- My Steps
- My Teacher Can Teach…Anyone!
- Rainbow Stew
- Summer Sun Risin’
- Two Mrs. Gibsons
- When This World Was New
- Where on Earth Is My Bagel?
Grades K-1 Bundle
- A House by the River
- A Morning with Grandpa
- Allie’s Basketball Dream
- Amelia’s Road
- Babu’s Song
- DeShawn Days
- Elizabeti’s School
- Featherless / Desplumado
- Finding the Music / En pos de la música
- From North to South / Del Norte al Sur
- Gettin’ Through Thursday
- Grandfather Counts
- Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los Meros Meros Remateros
- Home to Medicine Mountain
- Juna’s Jar
- King for a Day
- Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems
- My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito
- Poems to Dream Together
- Sunday Shopping
- The Palm of My Heart
Grades 2-3 Bundle
- A Library for Juana
- A Movie in My Pillow / Una pelÌcula en mi almohada
- A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
- A Shelter in Our Car
- Amazing Faces
- Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic
- Baseball Saved Us (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Chachaji’s Cup
- Confetti
- Cool Melons – Turn to Frogs!
- Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia
- First Day in Grapes
- Rent Party Jazz
- Richard Wright and the Library Card
- Sam and the Lucky Money
- Sky Dancers
- Strong to the Hoop
- Tashi and the Tibetan Flower Cure
- The Happiest Tree
- When the Shadbush Blooms
- Yum! ¡Mmmm! ¡Qué Rico! Americas’ Sproutings
Grades 4-5 Bundle
- Be Water, My Friend
- Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas
- Catching the Moon
- Dia’s Story Cloth
- George Crum and the Saratoga Chip
- Heroes
- Honda
- How We Are Smart
- I See the Rhythm
- In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall
- Irena’s Jars of Secrets
- It Jes’ Happened
- Louis Sockalexis
- My Papa Diego and Me / Mi papá Diego y yo
- Silent Star
- Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds
- The East-West House
- The Legend of Freedom Hill
- The Mangrove Tree
- The Pot That Juan Built
- Vanishing Cultures: Down Under
Grades 6-8 Bundle
- Chess Rumble
- Dear Mrs. Parks
- Etched in Clay
- I and I Bob Marley
- Jingu: The Hidden Princess
- Rattlesnake Mesa
- Summer of the Mariposas
- The Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe
- The Story of Banker of the People Muhammad Yunus
- The Story of Car Engineer Soichiro Honda
- The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
- The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
- The Story of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai
- The Story of Movie Star Anna May Wong
- The Story of Olympic Swimmer Duke Kahanamoku
- The Story of Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe
- The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge
- The Story of World War II Hero Irena Sendler
- Tofu Quilt
- Yummy
Grades 9-12 Bundle