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CRRL Kids: African American Inventors

Check out these titles for children and teens featuring the life and works of African American inventors, scientists, and innovators.

Central Rappahannock Regional Library

15 items

  • A Computer Called Katherine

    How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon

    Slade, Suzanne
    Book, 2019New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 921 Johns
  • Hidden Figures

    the True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

    Lee Shetterly, Margot
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. — 510.92 Le
  • Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, [2021] — 921 Latim
  • Little Legends

    Exceptional Men in Black History

    Harrison, Vashti
    Book, 2019New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2019] — 920 Ha
  • Patricia's Vision

    the Doctor Who Saved Sight

    Lord, Michelle
    Book, 2020New York : Sterling Children's Books, [2020] — 921 Bath
  • Saving the Day

    Garrett Morgan's Life-changing Invention of the Traffic Signal

    Parsons, Karyn, 1968-
    Book, 2021New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — 921 Morga
  • The Vast Wonder of the World

    Biologist Ernest Everett Just

    Mangal, Mélina
    Book, 2018Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, 2018. — 921 Just
  • Book, 2020New York : Penguin Workshop, [2020] — 921 Wells
  • Whoosh!

    Lonnie Johnson's Super-soaking Stream of Inventions

    Barton, Chris
    Book, 2016Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2016. — 921 Johns