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African American Resources: Literature

Plants as Liberation: Leah Penniman

Fiction

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler; Gloria Steinem (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781609807191
Publication Date: 2017
Freewater (Newbery and Coretta Scott King Award Winner) by Amina Luqman-Dawson
ISBN: 9780316056618
Publication Date: 2022
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
ISBN: 9781547609956
Publication Date: 2022
The Cherokee Rose by Tiya Miles
ISBN: 9780593596425
Publication Date: 2023

Narratives

Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper
ISBN: 9780593242384
Publication Date: 2023
Bird Brother by Rodney Stotts; Kate Pipkin (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781642831740
Publication Date: 2022
Black Earth Wisdom by Leah Penniman.
ISBN: 9780063160897
Publication Date: 2023
Early Recollections and Life of Dr. James Still, 1812-1885 by James Still
ISBN: 0813507693
Publication Date: 1973
George Washington Carver by Christina Vella
ISBN: 9780807160749
Publication Date: 2015
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man by Cornelia Walker Bailey; Christena Bledsoe
ISBN: 9780385493772
Publication Date: 2001
The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham
ISBN: 1571313508
Publication Date: 2017
The Home Place: Memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature by J. Drew Lanham
ISBN: 9781571313157
Publication Date: 2016
Nature Swagger by Rue Mapp
ISBN: 9781797214290
Publication Date: 2022
Time's Unfading Garden by J. Lee Greene
ISBN: 9780807102947
Publication Date: 1977

Additional Narratives

African American Pioneers

Children

Gladiola garden : poems of outdoors and indoors for second grade readers by Effie Lee Newsome
ISBN: 9781922348371
Publication Date: 2020
Lulu loves flowers by Anna McQuinn
ISBN: 9781907825118
Publication Date: 2015
Miguel's Community Garden by Janay Brown-Wood; Samara Hardy (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781682631669
Publication Date: 2022
In the Garden with Dr. Carver by Susan Grigsby; Nicole Tadgell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780807536308
Publication Date: 2010
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting; Kathryn Hewitt (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780152023720
Publication Date: 2000
Joy Takes Root by Gwendolyn Wallace; Ashleigh Corrin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780593406786
Publication Date: 2023
Little American Farmer by Percy Fitzhugh; McLoughlin McLoughlin Brothers (Created by)
ISBN: 9781429080057
Publication Date: 1908
Uncle John's City Garden by Bernette Ford; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780823447862
Publication Date: 2022
A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator); Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780823449651
Publication Date: 2023
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid; Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker; Kara Walker (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780374608255
Publication Date: 2024
Amara's Farm by Janay Brown-Wood; Samara Hardy (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781682631652
Publication Date: 2021
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; Shabazz Larkin (Illustrator); Will Allen (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780983661535
Publication Date: 2013
The Thing about Bees by Shabazz Larkin
ISBN: 9780998047799
Publication Date: 2019
Rooting for Plants by Janice N. Harrington; Theodore Taylor III (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781662680199
Publication Date: 2023
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062430151
Publication Date: 2020
Where's Rodney? by Carmen Bogan; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781930238732
Publication Date: 2017
Jayden's Impossible Garden by Melina Mangal; Ken Daley (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781631985904
Publication Date: 2021
Little Naturalists: George Washington Carver Loved Plants by Kate Coombs; Seth Lucas (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781423658412
Publication Date: 2021
Good Things by Maryah Greene; Alleanna Harris (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780593403648
Publication Date: 2023
The peanut man; the life of George Washington Carver in story form.
Publication Date: 1948