Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction
Award Finalist
California Book Award Finalist
Kids Indie Next Pick
Junior Library Guild
Gold Standard Selection
Black Birds in the Sky:
The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert
author of books for children and young adults
NOVELS
The Voting Booth
The Only Black Girls
in Town
The Revolution of
Birdie Randolph
Finding Yvonne
Little & Lion
Pointe
NONFICTION
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Adapted for Young People
(co-adapted with
Jeanne Theoharis)
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, Young Readers Edition (co-author with
Misty Copeland)
ANTHOLOGIES
Up All Night
Our Stories, Our Voices
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
Black Enough
Three Sides of a Heart
Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
Toil & Trouble
Feral Youth
ABOUT BRANDY
Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which was the winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the American Library Association's Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award; Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion; and The Only Black Girls in Town. Her books have been chosen as Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections, and have been named to many best of lists, including the ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults and Notable Children's Books. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, and her short stories and essays have appeared in several critically acclaimed anthologies for young people. She is on faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children, and lives in Los Angeles.
Photo by Jessie Weinberg
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For The Only Black Girls in Town, The Revolution of Birdie Randolph, Finding Yvonne, and Little & Lion, please contact:
Cheryl Lew
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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