Fiction
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| Title: |
A Lesson Before Dying
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| Author: |
Ernest J. Gaines |
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In 1940s Louisiana, an African American school teacher is asked to counsel a black youth sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. |
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| Title: |
Black Storm Comin'
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| Author: |
Diane Wilson |
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After a gun accident, Cody's father abandons his family, leaving twelve-year-old bi-racial Cody to support them which he does by riding for the Pony Express, but to get the job he has to lie about his age and race. |
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| Title: |
Bucking the Sarge
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| Author: |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
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Fifteen-year-old Luther dreams of winning the science fair, going to college and escaping "the Sarge" his domineering, slum-lord mother, who takes advantage of everyone, including Luther. |
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| Title: |
Copper Sun
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| Author: |
Sharon M. Draper |
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Fifteen-year-old Amari is taken by slavers from her Ashanti village and sold to a plantation in the Carolinas where she meets an unlikely ally, white indentured servant Polly, and learns of Fort Mose, a Spanish colony that may hold the key to their freedom. |
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| Title: |
Dark Sons
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| Author: |
Nikki Grimes |
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Ishmael, the biblical son of Abraham, and Sam, a modern Brooklyn teen whose father has just married a white woman, both deal with rejection and jealousy as their fathers' new sons are born. |
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Day of Tears: a novel in dialogue
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| Author: |
Julius Lester |
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In 1859 Savannah, Georgia Pierce Butler holds the largest slave auction in U.S. history to pay his gambling debts and impulsively sells Emma, the house slave who has raised his two young daughters and whom he promised never to sell. |
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| Title: |
Fallen Angels
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| Author: |
Walter Dean Myers |
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Ritchie enlists in the army and quickly finds himself shipped off to war in Vietnam. |
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| Title: |
First Part Last
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| Author: |
Angela Johnson |
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Bobby has some new rules in his life because, though just a teenager himself, he is now a single father whose life has been divided into "then" and "now". |
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| Title: |
House of Dies Drear
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| Author: |
Virginia Hamilton |
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When thirteen-year-old Thomas and his family move into the House of Dies Drear, once a stop on the Underground Railroad and rumored to be haunted, they find a mystery that may endanger their lives. |
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| Title: |
Imani All Mine
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| Author: |
Connie Porter |
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Although surrounded by poverty, violence, and racism in her ghetto neighborhood, 14-year-old Tasha has faith in a better world for her baby daughter, Imani. |
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| Title: |
Land
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| Author: |
Mildred D. Taylor |
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Paul-Edward Logan, the son of a white man and a black woman in the post-Civil War south, must leave his loving but prejudiced family behind and gain acceptance from the black community if he hopes to have the one thing he longs for: land of his own. |
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| Title: |
Like Sisters on the Homefront
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| Author: |
Rita Williams-Garcia |
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Fourteen-year-old Gayle gets pregnant for the second time and her mother decides to send her from New York City to the family home in Georgia where she meets her great-great-grandmother who gives her a new perspective on life. |
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| Title: |
Miracle's Boys
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| Author: |
Jacqueline Woodson |
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After his mother dies, twelve-year-old Lafayette worries that he will be separated from his older brothers, reliable Tyree, who gave up an MIT scholarship to raise them, and angry Charlie, recently returned from a correctional facility. |
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| Title: |
Monster
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| Author: |
Walter Dean Myers |
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Sixteen-year-old Steve tries to cope with his actions and his fate by writing a movie script of his life as he sits on trial, accused as an accomplice in a robbery and murder. |
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| Title: |
New Boy
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| Author: |
Julian Houston |
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Fifteen-year-old Rob, the only African American boy at a small New England private school, helps friends in Virginia fight segregation but the persecution of an Italian schoolmate shows him that prejudice comes in many forms. |
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| Title: |
Played
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| Author: |
Dana Davidson |
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To pass a clique initiation, popular, handsome Ian has three weeks to charm shy, plain Kylie into falling in love and having sex with him, but he realizes too late that Kylie may be just the girlfriend he needs. |
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| Title: |
Skin I'm In
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| Author: |
Sharon Flake |
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Maleeka, teased for her dark skin and homemade clothing, lets mean, popular Charlese boss her around to keep from being a total outcast until a new teacher challenges Maleeka to stand up for herself. |
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| Title: |
Spellbound
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| Author: |
Janet McDonald |
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Sixteen-year-old Raven thought her college dreams were a thing of the past after her baby was born, but a spelling bee contest with a scholarship prize may be the key to leaving the projects behind. |
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| Title: |
Tyrell
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| Author: |
Coe Booth |
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Fifteen-year-old Tyrell scrambles to make money for his family, but is determined to do it legally so that he doesn't end up in jail like his drug-dealer father. |
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Non-Fiction
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| Title: |
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
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| Author: |
Nathan McCall |
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McCall relates his life from a violent and criminal adolescence in 1970s Virginia, to a 12-year prison sentence for armed robbery, to a journalistic career with the Washington Post. |
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| Title: |
Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl
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| Author: |
Tonya Bolden |
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This chronicles the life of Maritcha Redmond Lyons, a free black girl born in lower Manhattan in 1848, including her experiences in the Civil War and her successful fight to attend the Providence, RI, white high school. |
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