She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Don Tate

Abstract: Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see Babe Ruth's mighty swing. She never dreamed she would someday own a baseball team. Or be the first-and-only woman ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.













Publisher: Harpercollins, 1 v. (unpaged)

Climbing Lincoln's Steps: the African American Journey by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Colin Bootman

Abstract: A study of events in African American history highlights important events that have taken place on the Lincoln Memorial steps in Washington, D.C.









Publisher: Albert Whitman and Co., 1 v. (unpaged)

Dave, the Potter by Laban Carrick Hill, illustrated by Bryan Collier

Abstract: A biography of a slave who lived in South Carolina in the 1800s and his extraordinary talent for pottery.








Publisher: Little, Brown, 1 v. (unpaged)

Obama: Only in America by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Richard Barrett

Abstract: A picture book biography of President Barack Obama.











Publisher: Marshall Cavendish, 1 v. (unpaged)

Michelle Obama: First Mom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Robert Barrett

Abstract: A tribute to a remarkable woman who worked hard and reached high









Publisher: Marshall Cavendish, 1 v. (unpaged)

Clemente! by Willie Perdomo, illustrated by Bryan Collier

Abstract: A little boy named Clemente learns about his namesake, the great baseball player Roberto Clemente











Publisher: Henry Holt and Co., 1 v. (unpaged)

Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald by Roxane Orgill, illustrated by Sean Qualls

Abstract: A swinging biography of young Ella Fitzgerald who pushed through the toughest of times to become one of America's most beloved jazz singers










Publisher: Candlewick Press, 48 pages

Oprah: The Little Speaker by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by London Ladd

Abstract: The first six years in the life of the world's most popular talk show host.











Publisher: Marshall Cavendish, 1 v. (unpaged)

Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Shane W. Evans

Abstract: Art and poetry combine to tell the story of boxer Jack Johnson, who became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion in the early part of the twentieth century.









Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, 1 v. (unpaged)

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney

Abstract: "This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement."--Amazon.com.





Publisher: Little, Brown