Together, Education Director, Deena Murphy, and Early Education Director, Stacy Weinberger, curated a list of books to brighten up King Street Center’s bookshelves. We believe it’s important for kids to see themselves on the pages of the books they read. Will you help to add to the stacks?
If you are making a gift in honor of a loved one, we’d be happy to inscribe their name on the inside cover. Just email the details to susannah@kingstreetcenter.org.
Our local book sellers at Phoenix Books (802-448-3350) and Flying Pig Bookstore (802-985-3999) are at the ready to take your call. Place your order through them, tell them it’s for King Street Center, and we’ll pick it up! A touchless, but touching, transaction. Should you decide to order online, our mailing address is:
King Street Center, 87 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401
And, thank you, thank you, a hundred times, thank you!
An update to our wishlist! December 2020
Do you know the What Was Series? And the Who Was Series? We’d love to add to our collection!
We’re also super excited about the Science Comics Series!
Picture books
*Already purchased. Thank you!
*Spirit of the Cheetah: A Somali Tale by Karen Lynn Williams
*You Matter by Christian Robinson
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle
Lailah’s Lunchbox by Reem Faruqi (Author), Lea Lyon (Illustrator)
*Simone Visits the Museum by Dr. Kelsi Bracmort
Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid by Victoria Tentler-Krylov Marie (Illustrator)
*Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell and James E. Ransome
MARVEL’s Black Panther: On the Prowl! (Marvel Black Panther) by R. R. Busse
I Am Brown by Ashok Banker and Sandhya Prabhat
Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright by Nina Crews and Richard Wright
Ayobami and the Names of the Animals by Pilar López Ávila
My Hands Sing The Blues: Romare Bearden’s…by Jeanne Walker Harvey
*Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
*Lola and the Library by Anna McQuinn
*Princess Hair by Sharee Jackson
*Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Allie’s Basketball Dream by Barbara Barber
*The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen
Young Adult
Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Clap When you Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne
*All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
*The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
*The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
The Mistreatment of Zora Langston by Lisa W. Tetting
All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) by Kwame Alexander and Dawud Anyabwile
Swing (Blink) by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess
A Black Woman Did That (1) by Malaika Adero and Chanté Timothy
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson , Kwame Alexander
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Chains (Seeds of America #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson