Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Birds in the Sky | 2021 | Brandy Colbert | Buy |
| 2 | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Adapted for Young Readers | 2021 | Brandy Colbert | Buy |
Brandy Colbert’s nonfiction work focuses on Black history for young readers. Black Birds in the Sky (2021) tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, an event that was systematically erased from public memory for decades. The book won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and was praised for making this history accessible to younger audiences.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Adapted for Young Readers (2021) brings the civil rights icon’s story to a middle grade audience, covering Parks’s lifelong activism beyond the famous bus boycott.