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African-American Fiction and Nonfiction
Celebrate Black History all year long with one of these great fiction or nonfiction books for teens
Click on the title to see if the book is in the library at this time.
Fiction
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Anderson, M.T.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party
Octavian, a young African American, as is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading
up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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Carbone, Elisa
Last Dance on Holladay Street
13-year-old Eva sets out to Denver to find her birth mother. When she arrives, however, she finds that her
real family is nothing like she imagined.
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Draper, Sharon
Copper Sun
Amari's is dragged from her home to the Carolinas where she is bought by a plantation owner, befriends an
indentured servant, and struggles to find herself in her new world.
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English, Karen
Francie
When Francie tries to clear the name of a sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a white man, she gets
herself and her community in more trouble than she could have ever imagined.
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Going, K.L.
The Liberation of Gabriel King
In Georgia in 1976, young Gabriel King must overcome his fears and help Frita, the only black girl in his
class, stand up to her own.
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Houston, Julian
New Boy
A young African-American boy discovers the world--and himself--when he integrates an all-white boarding
school in the 1950s.
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Lester, Julius
Day of Tears
Young Emma, a slave who's always been treated as family, discovers that every decision has its
consequences, and final judgment is passed down not by man, but by his maker.
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Mosley, Walter
47
The life of a young slave named 47 seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave and finds
himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.
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Schmidt, Gary D.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
No one in town will let Turner Buckminster forget that he's a minister's son except for Lizzie Bright Griffin,
a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves.
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Wilson, Diane Lee
Black Storm Comin'
Twelve-year-old Colton takes a job with the Pony Express and risks his life to deliver an important
letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
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Nonfiction
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Bausum, Ann
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
Two Nashvillians--one white and one black--meet as Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bell, Janet Cheatham and Lucille Usher Freeman, eds.
Stretch Your Wings: Famous Black Quotations for Teens
A collection of African proverbs and quotations by black Americans.
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Bolden, Tanya
Maritcha: a Nineteenth-Century American Girl
This poignant story tells what it was like to be a black child born free during the days of slavery.
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Crowe, Chris
Getting Away with Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Presents a true account of the 1955 Mississippi murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till.
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Hill, Laban Carrick
Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
In Harlem, New York the dawn of the twentieth century was a time of intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming.
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Myers, Walter Dean
Bad Boy
From bad boy to role model, Myers recalls growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, when seeing Langston
Hughes and Sugar Ray Robinson on the street was the norm and Jackie Robinson ruled the baseball field.
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Nelson, Marilyn
Carver: a Life in Poems
A lyrical account of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.
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List updated by Karen, February 2007.
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