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All Boys Aren't Blue
By George M. JohnsonIn a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood and adolescence growing up as a gay black man. -
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
By Ibi Zoboi (ed.)A collection of short stories explores what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else. -
Children of Blood and Bone
By Tomi AdeyemiZélie, her brother Tzain, and princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy. -
The Crossover
By Kwame AlexanderFourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. -
Dear Martin
By Nic StoneProfiled by a racist police officer in spite of his excellent academic achievements and Ivy League acceptance, a disgruntled college youth navigates the prejudices of new classmates and his crush on a white girl by writing a journal to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the hopes that his iconic role model's teachings will be applicable half a century later. -
The Hate U Give
By Angie ThomasAfter witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. -
I Am Alfonso Jones
By Tony MedinaIllustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings | The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store. -
Just Mercy, Adapted for Young Adults
By Bryan StevensonDetails the author's personal experience, challenges, and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate to find justice for America's most marginalized people. -
March: Book One
By John Lewis with Andrew AydinIllustrated by Nate Powell | A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. -
March: Book Three
By John Lewis with Andrew AydinIllustrated by Nate Powell | By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma. -
March: Book Two
By John Lewis with Andrew AydinIllustrated by Nate Powell | The award-winning, best-selling series returns, as John Lewis' story continues through Freedom Rides and the legendary 1963 March on Washington. -
Pet
By Akwaeke EmeziIn a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster. -
Piecing Me Together
By Renée WatsonTired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls. -
The Poet X
By Elizabeth AcevedoWhen Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard. -
Riot
By Walter Dean MyersIn 1863, Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and the draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City. -
Slay
By Brittney MorrisAn honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide. -
A Song Below Water
By Bethany C. MorrowIn a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers. -
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. KendiA timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America. -
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
By Junauda PetrusTold in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness. -
This Book Is Anti-Racist
By Tiffany JewellLearn language and phrases to interrupt and disrupt racism. So, when you hear a microaggression or racial slur, you'll know how to act next time. -
We Are Not Equal Yet: Understanding Our Racial Divide
By Carol Anderson with Tonya BoldenFrom the end of the Civil War to the tumultuous issues in America today, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America. -
Who Put This Song On?
By Morgan Parker17-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored. -
A Wreath for Emmett Till
By Marilyn NelsonIllustrated by Philippe Lardy | Fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1949 for whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.