Barber, Barbara E.
Saturday at the New You.
Shauna wishes she could do more to help Momma at her beauty salon and one day gets
the chance.
Hoffman, Mary. Amazing Grace.
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play
because
she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Sequel: Boundless Grace.
Igus, Toyomi. Two Mrs. Gibsons.
The daughter of an African American father and a Japanese mother recalls growing
up with her mother and her father's mother, two very different but equally loving
women.
Keats, Ezra Jack. The Snowy Day.
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a snowy day.
Lorbiecki, Marybeth. Sister Anne's Hands.
Seven-year-old Anna has her first encounter with racism in the 1960s when an
African American nun comes to teach at her parochial school.
McKissack, Patricia. Mirandy and Brother Wind.
To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for
her partner.
Mitchell, Margaree King. Uncle Jed's Barbershop.
Despite obstacles, Uncle Jed pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his
own barbershop.
Pinkney, Gloria Jean. The Sunday Outing.
Ernestine, who loves going to the railroad station to watch the trains, finally
realizes her dream of going on a train trip. Sequel: Back Home.
Polacco, Patricia. Chicken Sunday.
To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children try to
buy her an Easter hat.
Raschka, Christopher. Yo! Yes?
Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become
friends.
Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach.
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all that she sees
for herself and her family.
Saint James, Synthia. Sunday.
An African American family with twin girls spends Sunday going to church and
visiting family.
Williams, Vera B. Cherries and Cherry Pits.
Bidemmi draws pictures and tells stories about cherries.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African
American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go
to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Hamilton, Virginia. Arilla Sun Down.
A young girl, half black and half Indian, lives in a small town where her life
revolves around family, school, and friends.
Myers, Walter Dean. Scorpions.
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Scorpions gang, Jamal finds that
his enemies treat him with new respect when he acquires a gun - until tragedy
strikes.
Robinet, Harriette. Mississippi Chariot.
In 1936 Mississippi, Shortning Bread Jackson helps free his falsely convicted
father from a chain gang and helps his family move north to a better life.
Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
A black family living in the 1930's South are faced with prejudice and
discrimination which their children don't understand.
Clifton, Lucille. Everett Anderson's Year.
Chronicles, in verse, the activities of seven-year-old Everett Anderson through
the seasons of the year.
Coles, Robert. The Story of Ruby Bridges.
Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the
first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in 1960 New
Orleans.
Giovanni, Nikki. Knoxville, Tennessee.
A poem describing an African American girl's joys of summer spent with family in
Knoxville.
Golenbock, Paul. Teammates.
The story of Jackie Robinson and the integration of major league baseball.
Greenfield, Eloise. Nathaniel Talking.
Nathaniel B. Free ruminates on friendship, families, life, and death.
Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly.
Retold African American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and
desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of slaves, but passed on in hope.
Ladwig, Tim. Psalm Twenty-Three.
The text of the familiar psalm comparing God to a loving shepherd accompanies
illustrations which show the world of love and fear faced by an urban
African-American family.
Lindbergh, Reeve. Nobody Owns the Sky.
A rhymed telling of the life of the first African American aviator, who dreamed of
flying as a child and persevered until she made the dream come true.
Myers, Walter Dean. Brown Angels.
A collection of poems, accompanied by photographs, about African American children
living around the turn of the century.
Thomas, Joyce Carol. Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea.
A collection of poems exploring the theme of African American identity.
Contact
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Updated:
April 23, 2004
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