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[2020]., Primary, Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint Call No: LEVEL UP F SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Azaleah loved her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C, and is looking forward to earning extra credit by building a diorama of a tiger in his natural habitat . . . --but before she can even begin her task she has to solve the mystery of her younger sister's favorite missing stuffed animal because her parents and older sister are too busy and Tiana is ready to throw a tantrum"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Adolescent, Imprint Call No: FANTASY F MCK Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Blade So Black Volume: 1Summary Note: This isn't the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice's handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into Wonderland than she's ever gone before. And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head...literally.
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2022., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: REALISTIC F ILO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home"--Provided by the publisher.
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2020., Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: FANTASY F COR Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move. On top of all that, Evvie's magic abilities are growing stronger by the day. Her family calls it jubilation--a gift passed down from generations of black women since the time of slavery. And as Evvie's talents waken, something dark comes loose and threatens to resurface... And when the demons of Evvie's past finally shake free, she must embrace her mighty lineage, and summon the power that lies within her"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching"--From the publisher's web site.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F LOC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Andi feels stranded after the loss of her mother, the artist who swept color onto Andi's blank canvas. When she is accepted to a music camp, Andi finds herself struggling to play her trumpet like she used to before her whole world changed. Meanwhile, Zora, a returning camper, is exhausted trying to please her parents, who are determined to make her a flute prodigy, even though she secretly has a dancer's heart. At Harmony Music Camp, Zora and Andi are the only two Black girls in a sea of mostly white faces. In kayaks and creaky cabins, the two begin to connect, unraveling their loss, insecurities, and hopes for the future. And as they struggle to figure out who they really are, they may just come to realize who they really need: each other.
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By Chase, Paula[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F CHA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Marigold's family owns Flexx Unlimited, a hip-hop lifestyle company, and she attends the elite school Flowered Arms Academy, but she has never felt entirely comfortable in the mostly White school, and she prefers to hang out with Justice, relatively new to the school, but a star basketball player; so enrolling in Style High with him, a trainee program funded by Mari's family, seems like a good way to spend the summer--until she meets Kara, who obviously hates Mari and seems determined to turn Justice against her.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Kizzie Ann Stamps is nervous about starting at a new school that was just integrated, and wonders if she and her dog Shag will be allowed to compete in a herding competition because she is black.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: HISTORICAL F CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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Ã2018, Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first African American Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: FANTASY F CAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Moon's depression is overwhelming. Therapy doesn't help, and Moon is afraid that their mom hates them because they're sad. Moon's only escape is traveling to the spirit realms every night, where they hope they'll never return to the world of the living again. The spirit realm is where they have their one and only friend, Wolf, and where they're excited to experience an infinite number of adventures. But when the realm is threatened, it's up to Moon to save the spirit world. With the help of celestial beings and guardians, Moon battles monsters and shadows, and through their journey, they begin to learn that a magical adventure of love and acceptance awaits them in the world of the living, too. This story of hope shows readers that our souls blossom when we realize that we are as worthy and powerful as the universe itself"--Jacket flap.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: ROMANCE F WOO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren't so easily tamed. It starts with a fire. How will it end?"--Front jacket flap.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: FIC COLBERT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: MYSTERY F JOH Edition: First edition. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, when she finds a letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt. Soon, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, Candice discovers the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, and with her new friend Brandon, sets off to expose the injustice once committed against a local African American family.
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2008., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, New York, home for small-town Connecticut, a Black history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a mulatto girl who was once a slave in her house.
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2021., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: SC PHO Availability:46 of 46 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Evoking Beyoncé's Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler's heirs, have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that centers Black women and gender nonconforming individuals. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this collection contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters in which you cannot help but see yourself reflected. Witches and scientists, sisters and lovers, priestesses and rebels: the heroines of A Phoenix First Must Burn shine brightly. You will never forget them."--Provided by publisher.
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2017., Primary, Little, Brown and Company Call No: E Mil Edition: First Little, Brown Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Little girls pretending to be princesses celebrate the different shapes, textures, and styles of their black hair.
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Primary Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
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2016., Primary, Chronicle Books Call No: E MIL Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.