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2021., Adolescent, Feiwel & Friends Call No: Mystery Fic Abike-Iyimide Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Almost as soon as two black students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are chosen to be senior class prefects at Niveus Private Academy, an anonymous bully named Aces begins revealing private information about them that both embarrasses them and threatens their futures at elite colleges. When the bullying turns serious, Devon and Chiamaka unite to find out who is behind the threats.
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2020., Adolescent, Viking Call No: HISTORICAL F TAY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change. Rich, compelling storytelling is Ms. Taylor's hallmark, and she fulfills expectations as she brings to a close the stirring family story that has absorbed her for over forty years. It is a story she was born to tell."--Goodreads.com.
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By Pink, Randi2021., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: Historical Fic Pink Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Angel Hill, sixteen, and Isaiah Wilson, seventeen, attend the same African American school in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, but don't hang around in the same circles until a job working for a mobile library brings them together. As they collaborate for work, they bond over their knowledge of black civil rights authors and begin a tentative relationship. However, when a white mob attacks their community, the two realize they must put their civil rights theories into action.
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By Oshiro, Mark2018., Juvenile, TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES Call No: REALISTIC F OSH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department stationed in their halls. Despite their youth, the students decide to organize and push back against the administration. When tensions hit a fever pitch and tragedy strikes, Moss must face a difficult choice: give in to fear and hate or realize that anger can actually be a gift.
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[2017], Adolescent, Iron Circus Comics Call No: GN GIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A queer, black teenager finds herself stranded in a dangerous and unfamiliar place: an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp"--Amazon.com.
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By Elle, J[2022]., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: FANTASY F ELL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Half god and half human, Rue has made a vow to restore the magic that the Chancellor and the Grays have stolen from the Ghizoni and take back their land; she has more fully embraced her identity among the people of Yiyo Peak, but she is also from East Row in Houston, and girls from East Row do not give in to oppressors.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC ANDERSON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
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-- Octavian Nothing :2006-2008., Adolescent, Printed at the Sign of the Bear and Flame, by Candlewick Press Call No: HISTORICAL FIC AND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian , from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as a part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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2021., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fic Shabazz Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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2021., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Supernatural Fic Lewis Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Katrell uses her witchy powers to talk to the dead and escape her home life, but when she disregards the dead's warnings to stop, dark forces begin to close in forcing Katrell to make some hard decisions.
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By Brown, Echo2020., Adolescent, Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: FANTASY F BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
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2022., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BYFR Call No: Historical Fic Hammonds Reed Edition: First Simon & Schuster BYFR paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books Call No: Romance Fic Clayton Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a collection of six short romance stories about black teens by various authors that are all set in contemporary New York City during a summer blackout due to a heat wave. The characters are all either on their way or eventually heading to a block party in Brooklyn and confront a mix of feelings associated with varying stages of relationships, including instant connections, reconciling a past break-up, and friendships on the cusp of love.
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2023., Adolescent, Tor Teen Call No: Fantasy Fic Benton-Walker Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old twins Clement and Cristina feel lost after their father's death, but find a new sense of purpose as they work to quell the rising tensions between New Orleans's magic and non-magic communities and find out who cursed their mother.
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-- Boy 21.2013., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Sports Fic Quick Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
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2022., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Realistic Fic Peppins Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Avielle "Avi" LeBeau can't wait to join her older sister Belle at Briarcliff Prep, a Historically Black Boarding School that everyone in her family has attended, and Avi's life is soon filled with new friends, challenging classes, and a possible romance. Belle is dating Logan, the most popular boy at Briarcliff's sibling school Preston Academy, but no matter how much Belle reassures her, Avi can't help but feel like something is off about him. When Avi uncovers a dangerous secret about Logan, she knows she has to tell someone, but doing so could ruin her relationship with her sister forever.
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-- Bronx wood.By Booth, Coe[2013]., Adolescent, Push Call No: TEEN FIC BOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tyrell's life is spinning out of control after his father is released from prison, his little brother is placed in foster care, and the drug dealers he's living with are pressuring him to start dealing.
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[2016], Adolescent, Fulcrum Publishing Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the Southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
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[2021]., Viking Call No: 811.6 Gor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains a collection of poems by former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, discussing issues of racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, identity, and national and personal history.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: REALISTIC F STO Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns to uncertainty: G'ma keeps changing the license plate, dodging Scoob's questions, and refusing to check Dad's voice mails. And the farther they go, the more Scoob realizes that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--G'ma included"--Jacket flap.
