ABRAMS
Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America (Feb., $24.95, all ages) by Tonya Bolden presents the author's response to Margaret Burroughs's poem "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?"

CANDLEWICK
Mahalia (Jan., $19.99, 10-14) by Roxane Orgill examines the life and music of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.

No More! (Feb., $19.99, 9-12) by Doreen Rappaport, illus. by Shane Evans, profiles 11 individuals who resisted slavery.

CHILDREN'S BOOK PRESS
Reprint: Two Mrs. Gibsons (Sept., paper $7.95, 4-8) by Toyomi Igus, illus. by Daryl Wells, is a picture book depicting a multiracial America.

CHRONICLE
Bintou's Braids (Oct., $14.95, 4-8) by Sylviane Diouf, illus. by Shane Evans. A girl in a West African village learns that she is perfect just the way she is.

CLARION
One True Friend (Oct., $14, 9-12) by Joyce Hansen. Now living with a foster family in Syracuse, Amir writes letters to Doris, his best friend from the Bronx, in this sequel to The Gift-Giver and Yellow Bird and Me.

Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers (Oct., $16, 9-12) by Michael Cooper tells how this singing troupe from Fisk University embarked on a tour in 1871 to raise money for their school.

COASTAL CAROLINA PRESS
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Princeville: The 500-Year Flood (Oct., $14.95, 6-10) by Carole Boston Weatherford. After a flood in North Carolina destroys the first town incorporated by former slaves, neighbors band together to rebuild their community.

DIAL
Bronx Masquerade (Jan., $16.99, 12-up) by Nikki Grimes. Students in a high school English class use poetry as an outlet for the hurt and frustration in their lives.

EERDMANS
When Daddy Prays (Feb., $16, 4-up) by Nikki Grimes, illus. by Tim Ladwig, is a collection of poems about the prayers recited by a boy's father.

GROSSET & DUNLAP
Muhammad Ali (Nov., $3.99 paper, 7-10) by Randy Gordon. A look at the life of this athlete.

Tiger Woods (Feb., $3.99 paper, 7-9) by Andrew Gutelle. Photos and text focus on this golf star.

GROUNDWOOD
The Pot of Wisdom and Other Ananse Stories (Sept., $18.95, 4-12), retold by Adwoa Badoe, illus. by Baba Wague Diakité, collects 10 tales about this trickster spider.

HARCOURT
Mim's Christmas Jam (Oct., $16, 3-7) by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Two children send a special Christmas gift to their father, who is helping to dig the new subway in New York City.

Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali (Oct., $18, all ages) by Khephra Burns, illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Slave raiders seize a boy in an African village.

HARPERCOLLINS
The Other Side of Truth (Oct., $16.95, 10-up) by Beverley Naidoo. A girl and her brother leave Nigeria for London to escape a corrupt government and growing violence.

Flight of the Raven (Oct., $15.95, 10-up) by Stephanie S. Tolan. Terrorists take a telepathic boy hostage in this sequel to Welcome to the Ark.

Ray & the Best Family Reunion Ever (Jan., $15.95, 8-12) by Mildred Pitts Walter is a novella centering on a boy who comes to terms with his skin color at his Creole family's reunion.

Danitra Brown Leaves Town (Jan., $15.95, 8-up) by Nikki Grimes, illus. by Floyd Cooper. During a summer apart, Danitra and Zuri keep in touch through letters written in verse.

It's All Good Hair: Styling & Grooming Black Children's Hair (Feb., $12.95, all ages) by Michele N-K Collison presents tips on hair care.

Reissue: Langston Hughes (Jan., $16.95, 7-11) by Alice Walker, illus. by Catherine Deeter, is a picture book biography of this poet.

Reprints: Promises to the Dead (Jan., paper $5.95, 8-12) by Mary Downing Hahn; and The Heart Calls Home (Jan., $5.95 paper, 12-up) by Joyce Hansen.

HARPERCOLLINS/GERINGER
Grannie and the Jumbie: A Caribbean Tale (Oct., $15.95, 3-7) by Margaret Hurst offers a folktale set in the Caribbean.

HENRY HOLT
Visiting Langston (Feb., $15.95, 4-8) by Willie Perdomo, illus. by Bryan Collier. A girl visits the Harlem brownstone where Langston Hughes wrote his poetry.

IDEALS/CANDY CANE PRESS
The Story of Martin Luther King (Jan., $6.95, 3-5) by Johnny Ray Moore, illus. by Amy Wummer, is a board book focusing on the civil rights leader.

JUDSON PRESS
Just Call Me Joe Joe (Oct., $12, 6-10) by Jean Alicia Elster, illus. by Nicole Tagdell, follows the title character as he gets life advice from a cast of historical figures.

LEE & LOW
Rent Party Jazz (Oct., $16.95, 6-up) by William Miller, illus. by Charlotte Riley-Webb. A boy in 1930s New Orleans finds a way to help his unemployed mother pay the rent.

Love to Langston (Feb., $16.95, all ages) by Tony Medina, illus. by R. Gregory Christie, collects 14 poems about Langston Hughes's life.

LERNER
The Masai of Africa (Nov., $23.93, 9-13) by Lisa McQuail examines the traditional and modern lives of these nomadic people.

Oprah Winfrey (Nov., $7.95 paper, 11-18) by Katherine Krohn profiles this actress and TV personality.

Cooking the West African Way and Cooking the East African Way (Nov., $25.26 each, 10-18) by Constance Nabwire and Bertha Vining Montgomery compile recipes and facts about the cultures of African countries.

Malcolm X (Dec., $25.26, 11-18) by Michael Benson chronicles this leader's life.

LERNER/CAROLRHODA
Prudence Crandall (Oct., $21.27, 6-8) by Eileen Lucas, illus. by Kimanne Smith, centers on this 19th-century abolitionist who taught African-American girls.

Sylvia & Miz Lula Maye (Feb., $15.95, 8-12) by Pansie Hart Flood, illus. by Felicia Marshall, is a novel about the friendship between a girl and her 99-year-old neighbor.

The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (Feb., $6.95 paper, 6-8) by Cathy Moore, illus. by Mary O'Keefe Young, relays the true story of two runaway slaves.

Rescue on the Outer Banks (Feb., $6.95 paper, 6-8) by Candice Ransom, illus. by Karen Ritz. The first all African-American rescue crew saves victims of shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast.

LERNER/LERNER SPORTS
Venus and Serena Williams: Grand Slam Sisters (Sept., $5.95 paper, 9-14) by Terri Morgan chronicles the careers of these tennis stars.

MCGRAW-HILL
Celebrating African-American History (Jan., $13.99, 10-14) by Doris Hunter Metcalf collects biographies, activities and games.

PENGUIN PUTNAM/FOGELMAN
The Land (Sept., $17.99, 12-up) by Mildred D. Taylor. An African-American man in the post-Civil War South dreams of owning his own land in this prequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

PHILOMEL
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People (Jan., $17.99, all ages) by Carole Boston Weatherford collects poems celebrating the African-American experience.

PUTNAM
Hush (Jan., $15.99, 10-up) by Jacqueline Woodson. After her father testifies against fellow police officers in a case involving a racial shooting, Toswiah and her family must move and assume new identities.

SIMON & SCHUSTER
Shayla's Double Brown Baby Blues (Sept., $17, 12-up) by Lori Aurelia Williams is a companion to When Kambia Elaine Flew In from Neptune.

SIMON & SCHUSTER/ALADDIN
Paperback Series: Childhood of Famous Americans adds Harriet Tubman, Freedom's Trailblazer (Jan., $4.99, 8-12) by Kathleen Kudlinski, illus. by Robert Brown.

SIMON & SCHUSTER/ATHENEUM
Imani's Music (Jan., $17, 6-9) by Seron Williams, illus. by Jude Daly, reveals how African music made its way to the New World.

SIMON & SCHUSTER/ATHENEUM/SCHWARTZ
Goin' Someplace Special (Sept., $16, 4-8) by Patricia C. McKissack, illus. by Jerry Pinkney, is a story based on the author's childhood.

Under the Quilt of Night (Jan., $16, 5-10) by Deborah Hopkinson, illus. by James E. Ransome. Clara escapes on the Underground Railroad in this companion to Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt.

SIMON & sCHUSTER/LITTLE SIMON
It's Kwanzaa Time! A Lift-the-Flap Story (Oct., $5.99, 3-6) by Synthia Saint James explains the significance of this holiday.

SIMON & SCHUSTER/SIMON SPOTLIGHT
Series: New Little Bill titles are The Halloween Costume Hunt: A Lift-the-Flap Story (Sept., $5.99, 3-6) by Kim Watson, illus. by Bernie Cavender; Little Bill: The Honeywood Street Fair (Sept., $3.99, 3-7) by Catherine Lukas, illus. by Barry Goldberg; Who's Hiding, Little Bill? (Sept., $10.95, 3-7) by Lukas, illus. by Goldberg; Little Bill: An Adventure with Captain Brainstorm (Sept., $5.99, 4-8) by Fracaswell Hyman, illus. by Robert Powers; Little Bill: Presents for Everyone: A Lift-the-Flap Story (Oct., $5.99, 3-6) by Lara Bergen, illus. by Heidi Kirn and Neil McMahon; The Extra Thankful Thanksgiving (Oct., $3.99, 3-7) by Watson, illus. by Jane Howell; Little Bill: A Visit to the Dentist (Jan., $3.50, 3-7) by Eleanor Fremont, illus. by Andy Mastrocinque; Little Bill: Happy Valentine's Day (Jan., $5.99, 4-8) by Robert Scull, illus. by Michael Lennicx and Estu Kahata; and Little Bill's Big Book of Words (Feb., $12.95, 3-6) by Lukas, illus. by Robert Powers.

WHITE MANE
Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes (Sept., $19.95, 12-up) by Mary Garrison profiles 10 courageous former slaves.

WILEY
Series: Black Stars introduces African American Women Scientists & Inventors by Otha Richard Sullivan (Nov., $22.95, 10-14) and Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Stars of Colonial Times and the Revolutionary War by Jim Haskins (Jan., paper $12.95, 10-14).

WORKMAN
Black History Brain Quest (Feb., $10.95, 9-up) by Barbara Ellis. This revised edition features 850 questions based on African-American heritage.