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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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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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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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By Méndez, Matt2020., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Realistic Fic Mendez Edition: First Atheneum paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In El Paso, Fabi, her son Juan, and his best friend JD each have their own struggles as they deal with the injustices of being brown and poor in Texas. After a mistake at a party in a wealthy neighborhood, Juan and JD find themselves on the run, and decide to search out answers to who Juan's father really is. Fabi wants to stop them, but she is also struggling with the secrets of her own family.
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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.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Thomas Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Maverick "Mav" Carter begins dealing drugs for the King Lords as a way to help support his family while his father is in jail. When he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, his focus shifts and he tries to make a clean break from drug dealing. However, a loved one's murder makes it difficult to forget his old ties, and he must figure out for himself the meaning of loyalty, manhood, and responsibility.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Sci Fi Fic Morris Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus's curse of seeing the future distracts him from being and doing his best, but when he sees his little brother Isaiah's imminent death, he races against time, death, and circumstances to save him.
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2020., Adolescent, Flatiron Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Daud Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Amani, the body double for Princess Maram, is kept isolated with the threat of her family's safety held over her head. When her connection to the rebels trying to overthrow the ruling family are exposed, she breaks Maram's trust. Although Maram could have Amani executed for treason, instead she makes a proposal: Amani will take her place during the public festivities celebrating Maram's wedding to Idris, and Maram will keep Amani's rebel secrets. While Amani navigates the dangerous court for the princess--and fights her love for Idris--a plan forms in her mind, one that could help the rebels save her world. But if it fails, it will destroy all those she loves.
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By Hughes, Kiku[2020]., First Second Call No: GN Displacement Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While on vacation in San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Kiku finds herself displaced to the Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother was forcibly relocated to during World War II. After finding herself "stuck" in the 1940s, Kiku adjusts to the harsh life of the camp and experiences how the internees managed to create a community and commit small acts of resistance in order to survive. When she eventually returns back to her time, she realizes that the lessons she learned in camp about racism and civil liberties are still relevant.
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[2021]., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Romance Fic Goffney Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: An obsessive, list-making high school senior named Quinn loses her journal with deeply personal lists and is being blackmailed by an anonymous Instagram poster to complete a list of fears or the whole journal will be made public. Quinn's crush Carter offers to help her complete the tasks and find the journal, and helps her gain the courage to be honest and take risks.
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2018., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: NL REALISTIC F SMI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The Wizard of Oz has been provoking backlash in their mostly white, middle-class Kansas town. As tensions mount at school, so does a romance between Lou and Joey. But 'dating while Native' can be difficult. In trying to protect her own heart, will Lou break Joey's? -- adapted from jacket.
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2021., Adolescent, Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company Call No: Realistic Fic Magoon Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Told from multiple viewpoints, relates how Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
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2020., Adolescent, Flatiron Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Daud Edition: First Flatiron Books paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Amani has been kidnapped and forced to live as the body double for Princess Maram. Hated by the people her family rules, Maram is at risk of being assassinated when she appears in public. Though Amani enjoys the beauty of the palace and spending time with Maram's fiance, she is determined to escape her captivity and return to her family on her own moon.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Inkyard Press Call No: Realistic Fic Moulite Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Kezi Smith loses her life after an encounter with police at a Black Lives Matter protest, her sister Happi questions the media's portrayal of a sister she was never really close to. Pressed by her older sister and other friends, Happi joins a road trip along Route 66 to commemorate the memory of her sister, stopping at historical black safe houses noted in the "Negro Motorist Green Book." The journey prompts Happi and the other women to grieve, ponder personal ways to remember Kezi, and reflect on the scope and history of racial injustice.
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2022., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic Fic Alyse Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Zach, a white boy from Philly, moves to a racially divided town, he befriends Black siblings Capri and Justin, but when the police murder one of their friends, the town erupts into an all-out war, with Capri, Justin, and Zach caught in the middle.
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2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Zoboi Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.
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2021., Adolescent, Tor Teen Call No: Fantasy Fic Morrow Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In a modern world where sirens are persecuted, Tavia Phillips chooses to stay silent and communicates with sign language. Her sister-by-choice, Effie Calhoun Freeman, plays a mermaid at a local Renaissance fair and has strange abilities that grow stronger each day. When the murder of a local black girl is justified by accusations that she's a siren, both Tavia and Effie take a stand, using powers that may save them or lead to their demise.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Highwater Press Call No: 371.82 Rob Edition: 10th-anniversary edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Daniel, a schoolboy, is assigned to interview an elderly survivor of the old Indian residential school system. His assignment leads him to Betsy, the grandmother of one of his friends, who tells him her story of loss, abuse, abandonment, and indignity in the residential school, and how she found resilience, strength, and determination in the words that her father gave her at Sugar Falls.
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2022., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Johnson Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.