Crazy Quilts

URBAN/HIP HOP

Durango Street Frank Bonham

Dying Ground Nichelle Tramble

Getting It Alex Sanchez

Haters Alisa Valdes Rodriguez

Ride Wit’ Me

Drama High Series

Harlem Hustle; Brother Hood Janet McDonald

Street Love by Walter Dean Myers

Spellbound; Chill Wind; Project Girl Janet McDonald

Push by Sapphire (ALA recommended for college bound students)

Upstate Kalisha Buckhanno

When Kambia Elaine flew in from Neptune; Shayla’s double brown baby blues Lori Aurelia Williams

Like sisters on the homefront; Everytime a rainbow dies Rita Williams-Garcia

­Hazelwood High Trilogy: Forged by Fire; Tears of a Tiger; Darkness Before Dawn; Sharon Draper

Imani All Mine Connie Porter

­Black and White Paul Volponi

Bliss; More like wrestling Danyel Smith

Imani in Never can say goodbye; Imani in young love and deception; Jackie Hardrick

Bluford Series Paul Langan:

Volume 1 Lost and Found (2001) Volume 4 Someone To Love Me (2001) Volume 7 Until We Meet Again (2002) Volume 10 Summer of Secrets (2004)

Volume 1 A Matter of Trust (sequel) Volume 5 The Bully (2001) Volume 8 Blood Is Thicker (2004)

Volume 3 Secrets in the Shadows (2001) Volume 6 The Gun (2002) Volume 9 Brothers In Arms (2004)

Teenage BluezA collection of Life Changing Stories

Autobiography of my dead brother; Monster; Fallen angels Walter Dean Myers

Payton Skky Series by Stephanie Perry-Moore

Platinum Teen Series by KaShamba Williams (self published)

Hip-Hop high school; The hoopster Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Cry me a river; Satisfied with nothing; its all about the moon when the sun ain’t shinin Ernest Hill

SCI FI/Fantasy

Cupid A Tale of Love and Desire by Julius Lester

Black Powder By Statin Rabin

The Golden Hour; The Hour of the Cobra Maiya Williams

Honey Bea Kim Siegelson

Brown Girl in the Ring; Midnight Robber; Nalo Hopkinson

Parable of the talents; Parable of the sower; Fledgling; Kindred Octavia Butler

The astonishing life of Ocatavian Nothing, traitor to the nation, vol 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

47 by Walter Mosley

CHRISTIAN

Born in Sin Evelyn Coleman

Simply Divine Jacqelin Thomas

Blessings in Disguise ReShonda Tate Bilingsly

WORLD
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda J.P. Stassen

Nervous Conditions

Tropical Fish Doreen Baingana

Chandra’s Secret­ Allen Stratton

Tsotsi Athol Fugard

Lavina: The Saga of an African princess Wright, Author

Purple Hibiscus Ngozi Chimananda

Over a Thousand Hills I walk with you Hanna Jansen and Elizabeth D. Crawford

They Poured fire on us from the sky: the true story of three lost boys from Sudan Alphonsion Deng; Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy Bernstein
Behind the Mountains Edwidge Danticat

Dark Child Camara Laye

FICTION

What I Know is Me; Black Girls Write about Their World Christen Satchell, Natasha Tarpley

Jubilee Journey Carolyn Meyer

Neecey’s Lullaby by Cris Burks

Not so the Drama Paula Chase Hyman

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Z.Z. Packer

Fortunate Son Walter Mosley

Kyra and Jason Dana Davidson

Emako Blue Brenda Woods

Romiette and Julio; Battle of Jericho; Copper Sun Sharon Draper

Who am I without him? Sharon Flake

Lucy the Giant Sherri Smith (this is an interesting book to have an African American author!)

New Boy Julian Houston

The Year the Gypsies Came Linzi Glass

The dear one; house you pass on the way; Lena; I hadn’t meant to tell you this; From the notebooks of melanin sun; Miracle’s boys; If you come softly; Behind you; Hush; Looking for Red Jacqueline Woodsen

The first part last; Bird Angela Johnson

Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes

I Know why the caged bird sings Maya Angelou

Rattlebone Maxine Clair

Dancer: Everybody has a dream Lorri Hewett

A Summer of Kings Han Nolan

Beautful Dreamer Christopher Bigsby

NON-FICTION

What I Know for Sure Tavis Smiley

Chicken Soup for the African American Soul

We Beat the Street: How Friendship Pact Led to Success Sampson Davis, George Jenkins; Sharon Draper

Facing the Lion Joseph Lemasoliai Lekuton

Makes me wanna holler ­Nathan MCall

Letters to a young brother: manifest your destiny Harper Hill

House on childress street Kenji Jasper

A Wreath for Emmet Till Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy

CLASSICS

Manchild in the Promised Land Claude McCay

Black Boy; Native Son Richard Wright

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

The Autobiogtaphy of Malcolm X

Roots Alex Haley

Why We Can’t Wait Martin Luther King, Jr.

GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS

Birth of a Nation
political satire about a political and social revolution in East St. Louis, Illinois. Illustrated by kyle Baker.

Black Panther: Who Is the Black Panther?
Collecting the first six issues of the monthly comic book. This sets up who the character is, etc. A fine place to start.

Black Panther/X Men: Wild Kingdom
This is the second story arc …which introduces his relationship with Storm.

Black Panther: Bad Mutha
The third story arc which features the Panther teaming up with Luke Cage, Blade, Shang Chi, Brother Voodoo and Photon as they save a post-Katrina New Orleans from a vampire invasion.

Black Panther: The Bride
The fourth story arc, in which The Black Panther finds a bride and the whole Marvel Universe shows up for the wedding.

Black Panther Series

Spider Man: Wild Blue Yonder
This is the first arc of SPIDER MAN, which won a Prism Award for showing the negative effects of drug abuse. But hey, it’s a fun story! Read it anyway!

Spider Man: The Other
A huge story about the death and rebirth of Spidey.

Storm By Eric Jerome Dickey

Static Shock: Trial By Fire by Dwayne McDuffie et al

Static Shock DVD: The New Kid

Icon: A Hero’s Welcome by Dwayne McDuffie et al

The Truth: Red, White and Black by Robert Morales and Kyle Baker

The Essential Luke Cage

Cage by Brian Azzerello et al

Blade Series by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan

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