What are we reading this month?
In honour of Black History Month, our school libraries have recently acquired some wonderful resources for students to discover this month and throughout the year.
| Name | Author | School Level |
| A for Activist | Innosanto Nagara | Elementary |
| A Kids Book about Racism | Jelani Memory | Elementary |
| Africville | Shauntay Grant | Elementary |
| All are Welcome | Alexandra Penfold | Elementary |
| All the Colours We Are | Katie Kissinger | Elementary |
| Black is a Rainbow Color | Angela Joy | Elementary |
| Coast Salish, Coastal Rainforists and Cougars | Brenda Boreham | Elementary |
| Dads | John Coy | Elementary |
| Dealing with Racism | Jen Green | Elementary |
| Dragon’s in a Bag | Zetta Elliot | Elementary |
| Everybody Counts | Kristin Roskifte | Elementary |
| Eyes that Kiss in the Corners | Joanna Ho | Elementary |
| From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Janae Marks | Elementary |
| Genesis Begins Again | Alicia Williams | Elementary |
| Get Up, Stand Up | Bob Marley and Cedella Marley | Elementary |
| Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry | Elementary |
| Harbor Me | Jacqueline Woodson | Elementary |
| Hey Black Child | Useni Eugene Perkins | Elementary |
| Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race | Margo Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman | Elementary |
| I am Enough | Grace Byers | Elementary |
| I am Jackie Robinson | Brad Meltzer | Elementary |
| I didn’t Stand Up | Lucy Falcone and Jacqueline Hudon | Elementary |
| I Walk With Vanessa | Kerascoet | Elementary |
| Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea | Meena Harris | Elementary |
| Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Pena | Elementary |
| Let the Children March | Monica Clark-Robinson | Elementary |
| Lovely | Jess Hong | Elementary |
| Mae Among the Stars | Roda Ahmed | Elementary |
| Meet Willie O’Ree | Elizabeth MacLeod | Elementary |
| Mixed Me | Taye Diggs | Elementary |
| Mixed: A Colourful Story | Arree Chung | Elementary |
| Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | Elementary |
| Skin Again | Bell Hooks | Elementary |
| Slay | Brittney Morris | Elementary |
| Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice | Marianne Celano, Marietta Colllins, and Ann Hazzard | Elementary |
| Steamboat School | Deborah Hopkinson and Ron Husband | Elementary |
| Stella by Starlight | Sharon M. Draper | Elementary |
| Strictly No Elephants | Lisa Mantchev | Elementary |
| Sugar in Milk | Thrity Umrigar | Elementary |
| Sulwe | Lupita Nyong’o | Elementary |
| Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt | Deborah Hopkinson | Elementary |
| The Big Umbrella | Amy Bates | Elementary |
| The Colours of Us | Karen Katz | Elementary |
| The Journey of Little Charlie | Christopher Curtis | Elementary |
| The Library Book | Tom Chapin | Elementary |
| The Night is Yours | Abdul-Razak Zachariah | Elementary |
| The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read | Rita Hubbard | Elementary |
| The Sandwich Swap | Rania Al-Abdullah | Elementary |
| The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson | Elementary |
| This is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias | Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Drew Shannon | Elementary |
| Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! | Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki | Elementary |
| Viola Desmond: A Hero for Us All | Sarah Howden | Elementary |
| We are the Change | Harry Belafonte | Elementary |
| What was the Underground Railroad? | Yona Zeldis McDonough, Hq Who, and Lauren Mortimer | Elementary |
| Who is Barack Obama? | Roberta Edwards, Hq Who, and John O’Brian | Elementary |
| Who is Kamala Harris? | Kirsten Anderson | Elementary |
| Who Will You Be? | Andrea Pippins | Elementary |
| Woke: A young Poets Call to Justice | Mahogany Brown | Elementary |
| You Matter | Christian Robinson | Elementary |
| You, Me, and Empathy | Jayneen Sanders | Elementary |
| Young, Gifted and Black | Andrea Pippins | Elementary |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Elementary/Secondary |
| Akata Warrior | Nnedi Okorafor | Secondary |
| Akata Witch | Nnedi Okorafor | Secondary |
| Black Panther Series | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Secondary |
| Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi | Secondary |
| Children of Virtue and Vengeance | Tomi Adeyemi | Secondary |
| Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo | Secondary |
| Crossover (Graphic Novel) | Kwame Alexander | Secondary |
| Dear Justyce | Nic Stone | Secondary |
| Dear Martin | Nic Stone | Secondary |
| Ghost Boys | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Secondary |
| Hidden Figures Young Readers Edition | Margot Lee Shetterly | Secondary |
| Ikenga | Nnedi Okorafor | Secondary |
| Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary | Walter Dean Myers | Secondary |
| New Kid (Graphic Novel) | Jerry Craft | Secondary |
| Punching the Air | Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam | Secondary |
| Shuri: The Search for Black Panther | Nnedi Okorafor | Secondary |
| The Black Kids | Christina Hammounds Reed | Secondary |
| This Book is Anti Racist | Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand | Secondary |