DDS Library new titles available!

 Denver Discovery Library wants to make Black History Month a springboard for exploring the African American themed/author books that we have in our library!

These books are ready for you to check out!

This is a partial list of some of our newest books. To check out any of these books just place a hold on them and they will happily be delivered to the DDS main office on Tuesday for you to pick up.

Color blind : a story of racism
        [ Book ] 305.896 HAR    Harris, Johnathan,
                Published 2019
Lifting as we climb : black women's battle for the ballot box
        [ Book ] 323.3 DIO      Dionne, Evette,
                Published 2020
The forbidden schoolhouse : the true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students
        [ Book ] 370.9 JUR      Jurmain, Suzanne.
                Published 2005
Infinite hope: a black artist's journey from World War II to peace
        [ Book ] 741.6 BRY      Bryan, Ashley,
                Published 2019
Maya Angelou
        [ Book ] 811 ANG        Angelou, Maya.
                Published 2007
Woke : a young poet's call to justice
        [ Book ] 811 BRO        Browne, Mahogany L.,
                Published 2020
I, too, sing America : three centuries of African American poetry
        [ Book ] 811 I  [selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn.
                Published 2017
Words with wings: a treasury of African-American poetry and art
        [ Book ] 811.008 WOR    selected by Belinda Rochelle.
                Published 2001
Let it shine: stories of Black women freedom fighters
        [ Book ] 920 PIN        Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
                Published 2000
Almost astronauts: 13 women who dared to dream
        [ Book ] 929.45 STO     Stone, Tanya Lee.
                Published 2009
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
        [ Book ] B COLVIN       Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
                Published 2011
Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
        [ Book ] B DOUGLASS     Bolden, Tonya,
                Published 2018
Streetcar to justice : how Elizabeth Jennings won the right to ride in New York
        [ Book ] B GRAHAM       Hearth, Amy Hill, 1958-
                Published 2018
Reaching for the Moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
        [ Book ] B JOHNSON      Johnson, Katherine G.,
                Published 2019
Never caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
        [ Book ] B JUDGE        Dunbar, Erica Armstrong,
                Published 2020
Madam C.J. Walker : entrepreneur
        [ Book ] B WALKER       Bundles, A'Lelia Perry.
                Published 2008
Brown girl dreaming
        [ Book ] B WOODSON      Woodson, Jacqueline.
                Published 2016
Don't touch my hair!
        [ Book ] E MIL  Miller, Sharee (Illustrator),
                Published 2018
The crossover
        [ Book ] FIC ALE        Alexander, Kwame,
                Published 2019
The forgotten girl
        [ Book ] FIC BRO        Brown, India Hill, 1991-
                Published 2019
Like Vanessa
        [ Book ] FIC CHA        Charles, Tami,
                Published 2018
From the desk of Zoe Washington
        [ Book ] FIC MAR        Marks, Janae.
                Published 2020
As brave as you
        [ Book ] FIC REY        Reynolds, Jason,
                Published 2018
Genesis begins again
        [ Book ] FIC WIL        Williams, Alicia, 1970-
                Published 2019
Before the ever after
        [ Book ] FIC WOO        Woodson, Jacqueline,
                Published 2020