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You'll find these books in the young
adult (YA) section of the library.
America by E.R.
Frank
America, a part-black, part-white, part-anything boy who has spent many
years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece
his life together.
(YA FIC FRANK)
Come a Stranger
by Cynthia Voigt
Mina's deep love for a grown-up minister drives her to seek a way to
give him an unforgettable remembrance, restoration of his faith. (YA FIC
VOIGT)
Dancer by Lori
Hewett
Can Stephanie become a ballet dancer? Her father thinks she's crazy and
being unrealistic; her white classmates are snobs; and even Vince, the
love of her life, has too many problems of his own to be much help. (YA
FIC HEWETT)
Flyy Girl by
Omar Tyree
As Tracy comes of age, she discovers that her curves, attitude and
slanted hazel eyes win attention with boys. Spoiled and materialistic,
Tracy sets out to get everything she wants. She trades boys like she
trades outfits. But the material life gets old fast. (YA FIC TYREE)
Gabriel's Story
by David Anthony Durham
Gabriel and his new friend James run away from their homes to join a
group of mostly white cowboys herding cattle to Texas. Too late, they
realize their cowboy comrades are their own worst enemies. (YA FIC
DURHAM)
Imani, All Mine
by Connie Porter
A tragic, lyrical novel of a 15 year old mother in inner city Buffalo.
(YA FIC PORTER)
Kindred by
Octavia Butler
A modern African American woman is pulled back in time against her will
to the slave holding South of the 19th Century. (YA SF BUTLER)
Miracle's Boys
by Jacqueline Woodson
Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes
after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for
the death of their mother. (YA FIC WOODSON)
Monster by
Walter Dean Myers
"Monster" is what the prosecutor called 16-year-old Steve
Harmon for his supposed role in the fatal shooting of a
convenience-store owner. But was Steve really the lookout who gave the
"all clear" to the murderer, or was he just in the wrong place
at the wrong time? You decide. (YA FIC MYERS)
North by Night
by Katherine Ayres
The journal of a 16 year old girl whose family operates a stop on the
Underground Railroad. (YA FIC AYRES)
Push by
Sapphire
An illiterate teenage mother from Harlem endures a life of shocking
poverty and hardship, but with help and determination learns to read and
begins to transform herself. (YA FIC SAPPHIRE)
Spellbound by
Janet McDonald
Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing
project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best
friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college
preparatory program and four year scholarship. (YA FIC MCDONALD)
Through the Wormhole
by Robert J. Favole
By means of special software, Michael and Kate travel back in time to
save Michael's ancestor, a Black cavalryman during the Revolutionary
War, and to warn Lafayette of a kidnapping plot. (YA FIC FAVOLE)
When Kambia Elaine
Flew In From Neptune by Lori Williams
Shayla, an aspiring writer growing up in a poor section of Houston,
can't figure out the new girl next door, Kambia Elaine, who tells
fantastic stories. She slowly realizes that Kambia Elaine needs help,
but Shayla doesn't know where to find it.
(YA FIC WILLIAMS)
You'll find these books
in the adult fiction (FIC) section of the library.
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
An abused, uneducated black woman at the beginning of the 20th century
struggles for independence. (FIC WALKER)
Four Guys and Trouble
by Marcus Major
Four guys have been friends since their college days. They've stuck
together through thick and thin - until trouble shows up in the form a
girl named Erika. (FIC MAJOR)
Free and Other Stories
by Anika Nailah
Gripping stories about how race and racism affect different lives. (FIC
NAILAH)
Leaving by
Richard Dry
From rural South Carolina to gang infested city streets, this sweeping
epic chronicles the struggles of an African American family trying to
overcome racial injustice.
(FIC DRY)
Leaving Atlanta
by Tayari Jones
Tasha, Rodney and Octavia try to navigate the social whirlpools of
middle school amidst the gruesome Atlanta child murders of the early
1980's. (FIC JONES)
Meant to Be by
Rita Coburn
Whack Jan lands her dream job and searches for love in 1970's
Chicago.
(FIC COBURN)
Miracle at St. Anna
by James McBride
During World War II, four of the U.S. Army's 92nd Division of all-black
Buffalo Soldiers become trapped between forces beyond their control and
between worlds.
(FIC MCBRIDE)
Move Over Girl
by Brian Peterson
Tony is tired of being a player and wants to find a meaningful, romantic
relationship. (FIC PETERSON)
Only Twice I've Wished
For Heaven by Dawn Trice
After Tempest and her family move to an exclusive black suburb in
Chicago, she begins to feel both curious and shut out from the loud
music, housing projects, battered brownstones, and intriguing landscape
of urban 35th Street. (FIC TRICE)
Please Please Please
by Renee Swindle
Whatever Babysister wants, Babysister gets. Now she wants her best
friend's boyfriend. And she'll stop at nothing to get him. (FIC SWINDLE)
Riding Through Shadows
by Sharon Ewell Foster
Living in one of the most tumultuous decades of America's history, an
eight-year-old African American girl experiences the anguish of
real-life heartache: she loses her beloved father in the Vietnam War,
endures the dissolution of her family, and faces the challenge of
integration. Yet, through a wise and eccentric old woman, she also
discovers the tenacity of joy. (FIC FOSTER)
River, Cross My Heart
by Breena Clarke
Ten-year-old Johnnie Mae Bynum is haunted by the memory of her sister
Clara, who drowned in the Potomac River at a point where the
neighborhood children had been routinely warned against swimming. Five
years older, Johnnie Mae had always been charged with Clara's care, so
Clara's death stirs up guilt and confusion. Had she pushed Clara into
the water or was she only guilty of neglect? (FIC CLARKE)
Shackling Water
by Adam Mansbach
A talented saxophone player moves from Boston to Harlem to study with
the jazz master he idolizes. (FIC MANSBACH)
Too Beautiful for
Words by Monique Morris
Angie, who lives in a rough Oakland neighborhood with her strict
grandparents, falls under the sweet talking thumb of a street thug named
Jesus. (FIC MORRIS)
White Boy Shuffle
by Paul Beatty
The hilarious ups and downs of Gunnar Kaufman, a street poet and
basketball star who grows up black in predominantly white Santa Monica.
(FIC BEATTY)
Your Blues Ain't Like
Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
Common threads of poverty, violence, and sorrow weave two families
together.
(FIC CAMPBELL)
African
American Authors you might enjoy
Joyce
Barnes
Octavia Butler
Bebe
Moore Campbell
Christopher Paul Curtis
Sharon
Draper
Sharon Flake
Nikki
Grimes
Rosa Guy
Joyce
Hansen
Angela Johnson
Julius
Lester
Walter Dean Myers
Mildred
Taylor
Joyce Carol Thomas
Rita
Garcia-Williams
13 April 2006
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