Read-alikes and related books

Books like Hey Black Child

If you loved Hey Black Child by Useni Eugene Perkins, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, African American & Black, People & Places, and Poetry.

Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance African American & Black People & Places Poetry Social Themes United States Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Hey Black Child

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Hey Black Child.

Zuri Ray Tries Ballet — Tami Charles

Zuri Ray Tries Ballet

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Dear Black Child — Rahma Rodaah

Dear Black Child

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

I Promise — LeBron James

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Hold Them Close A Love Letter to Black Children — Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Hold Them Close A Love Letter to Black Children

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Black Gold — Laura Obuobi

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Brown Girl, Brown Girl — Leslé Honoré

Brown Girl, Brown Girl

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Boogie Boogie, Y’all — Charles George Esperanza

Boogie Boogie, Y’all

Charles George Esperanza

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

A Library — Nikki Giovanni

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Black Boy, Black Boy Celebrate the Power of You — Ali Kamanda

Black Boy, Black Boy Celebrate the Power of You

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

My Black Me A Beginning Book of Black Poetry — Various

My Black Me A Beginning Book of Black Poetry

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

America, My Love, America, My Heart — Daria Peoples

America, My Love, America, My Heart

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Hello There, Sunshine — Tabitha Brown

Hello There, Sunshine

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Kicks — Van G. Garrett

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Nigel and the Moon — Antwan Eady

Nigel and the Moon

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Fresh Princess: Style Rules! — Denene Millner

Fresh Princess: Style Rules!

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

I’m from — Gary R. Gray (Jr.)

Gary R. Gray (Jr.)

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

The Blacker the Berry Poems — Joyce Carol Thomas

The Blacker the Berry Poems

Joyce Carol Thomas

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

My Hair — Danielle Murrell Cox

Danielle Murrell Cox

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

I Believe I Can — Grace Byers

I Believe I Can

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

With the Fire on High — Elizabeth Acevedo

With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

My Hair Is Like the Sun — St. Clair Detrick-Jules

My Hair Is Like the Sun

St. Clair Detrick-Jules

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

The Me I Choose to Be — Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

The Me I Choose to Be

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

Under Water — J. L. Powers

Under Water — J. L. Powers

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

The Queen of Kindergarten — Derrick Barnes

The Queen of Kindergarten

Themes: Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • African American & Black • People & Places

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, African American & Black, People & Places — the same threads that run through Hey Black Child by Useni Eugene Perkins. Among the authors featured: Tami Charles, Rahma Rodaah, LeBron James, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, and others.

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