Great Reading for Young People from AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS, compiled by Hackley Public Library Staff

Barbara Barber

jE Saturday at the New You

Ysaye Barnwell

jE No Mirrors in My Nana’s House

Sandra Belton

PB j “Ernestine and Amanda” series

Caroline Binch

jE Gregory Cool

Ashley Bryan

j 398.2 B84t Turtle Knows Your Name

j 784 B84w Walk Together Children

Alice Childress

YA A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich

Deborah Chocolate

PB jE Imani in the Belly

j 398.2 C452s Spider and the Sky God

Lucille Clifton

jE “Everett Anderson” series

PB j The Lucky Stone

Bill Cosby

PB jI “Little Bill” series

Donald Crews

jE Bigmama’s

jE Shortcut

Christopher Paul Curtis

j The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Sharon Draper

PB YA Tears of a Tiger

Valerie Flournoy

jE The Patchwork Quilt

Nikki Giovanni

j 811 G439s Spin a Soft Black Song

Eloise Greenfield

jE Me and Neesie

j 811 G837 n Nathaniel Talking

Nikki Grimes

YA Jazmin’s Notebook

jE Meet Danitra Brown

Rosa Guy

PB YA The Friends

PB j The Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III

Virginia Hamilton

PB j The House of Dies Drear

j 398.2 H18p The People Could Fly

Joyce Hansen

j Which Way Freedom?

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

jE Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and crab cakes later)

jE Mac and Marie and the Train Toss Surprise

Angela Johnson

jE Daddy Calls Me Man

jE The Girl Who Wore Snakes

jE Julius

Julius Lester

jE Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story

j 398.2 L567k The Knee-High Man

j 326 L567t To Be a Slave

Patricia McKissack

j 398 M217d Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Sharon Mathis

j The Hundred Penny Box

j Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose

Walter Dean Myers

j 811 M992 b Brown Angels

YA Fallen Angels

YA The Glory Field

YA Slam!

PB j The Young Landlords

Connie Porter

PB j “Addy” books (American Girl series)

Faith Ringgold

jE Tar Beach

jE Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky

jE Invisible Princess

Ethel Smothers

j Down in the Piney Woods

j Moriah’s Pond

John Steptoe

j 398.2 St 445m Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

Eleanora Tate

PB j The Secret of Gumbo Grove

PB j A Blessing in Disguise

Mildred Taylor

j The Gold Cadillac

j The Friendship

j Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Joyce Carol Thomas

j 811.T364 b Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea

jE Gingerbread Days

Mildred Pitts Walter

j Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

j Mariah Keeps Cool

Brenda Wilkinson

PB j Definitely Cool

Rita Williams-Garcia

YA Blue Tights

PB YA Fast Talk on a Slow Track

Jacqueline Woodson

YA, j I Didn’t Mean to Tell You This

j Lena (sequel to I Didn’t Mean To Tell You This)

jE We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past

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