Dinah Johnson

About the Author

Dinah Johnson is the award-winning author of many books for young readers including Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote (W24) and H Is for Harlem, illustrated by April Harrison, which received five starred reviews, was named a Boston-Globe Horn Book Honor Book, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and a Horn Book Fanfare title. A professor of English at the University of South Carolina, she lives in Columbia. She invites you to visit her at dinahjohnsonbooks.com.

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Black Barbie

by Dinah Johnson, Illustrated by Laura Freeman

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Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote

by Dinah Johnson, Illustrated by Jerry Jordan

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H Is for Harlem

by Dinah Johnson, Illustrated by April Harrison

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