TEEN & YOUNG ADULT / GRADES 6-12

 Amanda Gorman (A and Poet)

List Price: $24.99 (Hardcover – Poetry / Inaugeral Messenger – 2021)

The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author…

Sharon G. Flake (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Self Esteem – 2007)

Thirteen-year-old Maleeka Madison, is uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark. Until she meets Miss Saunders, a new teacher who is self assured and has a large birthmark on her…

Liara Tamani (A) 

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Family / Self Discovery – 2017)

“Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear Martin

Calling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.

This…

Tony Medina (A) and Stacey Robinson (ILT) and John Jennings (ILT)

List Price: $18.95 (Paperback – Teen / Black Lives Matter / Police Brutality – 2017)

Named to the 2018 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens list (Young Adult Library Services Association) and the New York Public Library’s list of Best Books…

Tara Sullivan (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Tanzania / Albino / Hunted – 2014)

“Harrowing but ultimately redemptive…the murder…

American Medical Association and Amy B. Middleman (EDIT) and Kate Gruenwald Pfeifer (A)

List Price: $17.00 (Paperback – Teen Self Help / Boys / Puberty / Health – 2006)

Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy life. It even more important to get answers and advice to the…

Davis Sampson (A) Rameck Hunt (A) and George Jenkins (A)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Biography / Mentoring – 2005)

The dramatic, inspiring story of three inner-city youths – Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt – whose strong friendship gave them the strength to continue…

Sunbul Ali Karamali (A)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Introduction to Islam  for Teens – 2013)

Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in…

Farrah Gray with Fran Harris

List Price:$14.99 (Paperback / Self Help and Improvement / Teen Success Story – 2005)

A remarkable teenager who went from public assistance to a million dollar net worth shares his story and offers 9 key principles to success.

Farrah Gray is no ordinary teenager. He wears a suit…

Help your child become a financial whiz kid―for ages 8 to 12

It’s never too early to set children on the path to financial literacy. This activity book, a companion to Investing for Kids, teaches them how to become savvy with their finances. Through educational and engaging exercises, they’ll learn how to track their…

Jacqueline Woodson (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biracial Teen / Friendship / Family – 2010)

A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newberry Honor winning author

Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She’s always been different–set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents…

Indus Khamit-Kush (A) and Lon Sharpe (EDIT)

List Price: $19.95 (Paperback – African History / Origins / Contributions – 2003)

Author: Indus Khamit Kush, tells of the stolen legacy of African people referencing historical documents. Denied, was their creation of philosophy, science,…

Clock Striker, now in graphic novel format, follows Shonen manga’s first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers.

*2024 YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens*
*2023 Texas Library Association Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Winner – Starred…

Ben Philippe (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – New Friendship / Fiction – 2020)

From the award-winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager comes a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han. 

Henri “Halti” Haltiwanger can charm just…

Zetta Elliott (A) and Shadra Strickland (ILT)

List Price: $13.95 (Paperback – Fiction / Grief and Loss / Mentoring / Art / Hope)

An urban African-American boy transcends the loss of loved ones with help from a caring elderly mentor and from the sustaining ability to create art. Bird looks back and remembers…

Bryan Stevenson (A)

List Price: $10.99 (Racism  and Social Justice -2019)

The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy–now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and the subject of an HBO documentary feature!

In this very personal work–adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which the New…

Justin Simien (A) and Ian O’ Phelan (ILT)

List Price: $18.99  (Hardcover – Race Relations / Life On A White College Campus – 2014)

“A Guide to Inter-Racial Harmony in Post-Racial America”

In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the…

Jerry Craft (A) 

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – 7th Grade / New School – 2019)

Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature!

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school…

Ta-Nehisi Coates (A) and Chris Sprouse  (ILT)

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Graphic Novel / Black Super Hero – 2017)

Dark times for the Black Panther, as Ta-Nehisi Coates chronicles the fi nal days of the kingdom of Wakanda! As Zenzi and the People poison Wakanda’s populace against their king, a cabal of…

Richard Wright (A)

List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – African American Classic / Race and Class – 2005)

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young…

Samhita Arni (A) and Mona Chirakar (ILT) 

List Price: $24.95  (Hardcover –  India / Graphic Novel / War /  A  Woman’s Opinion -2011)

The Ramayana is an epic poem by the Hindu sage Valmiki, written in ancient Sanskrit sometime after 300 BC. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it…

Scarlet Paoicchi (A)

List Price: $11.99 (Paperback –  Self Help / Gratitude Journal For Teens – 2023)

Gratitude Journal for Teens: Prompts to Cultivate a Habit of Awareness and Improve Well-being 

Vice President Elect – Kamala Harris (A) 

List Price: $10.99 (Kamala Harris’s Memoir – 2020)

Now adapted for young readers, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life.

With her election to the vice presidency, her election to the U.S. Senate, and her position as…

Walter Dean Myers (A)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Leader / African American / Politics – 1994)

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book and an ALA Notable Children Book.

In this highly praised, award-winning biography, Walter Dean Myers portrays Malcolm X as prophet, dealer, convict, troublemaker, revolutionary, and…

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path.<br data-mce-fragment="1"…

Dr. Mae Jemison (A)

A Collection of Moments in Dr. Mae’s Life

List Price: $23.95 (Hardcover – First Black Astronaut- 2021)

“The writing sings” says Publisher’s Weekly in this “inspiring autobiography.” Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, is truly a modern hero with a remarkable, inspirational story to tell.

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Beverly Bond (A and E)

List Price: $30.00 (Hardcover – Celebrates Black Women’s Achievements and Success – 2018)

From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.

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Sister Souljah (A)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Street Smart Girl / Challenges and Survival – 2006)

Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.

I came busting into the world during one of New…

A gorgeous full-color graphic historical novel, sure to become an instant classic, that explores the friendship and feud between Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass, offering new insights into slavery and incarceration in the United States.

Told from the perspectives of statesman and orator Frederick Douglass, and journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, Before…

Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley (Adaptor), Lydia Blackmon Lowery (A) and PJ Loughran (ILT)

List Price: $11.99 (Paperback – Civil Rights Era/ Protest/ Social Justice – 2016)

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes–now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide.

As the youngest marcher in the…

Deepak Chopra (A) 

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback /Spiritual Self Help – 2006)

A fifteen-year-old boy is walking through a swirling fog on his way to school when a voice calls out, “Come here. We need to talk.” Out of the mist emerges an old man with a white beard. He is a fantastic figure, as…

Arnold Adoff (A) and Benny Andrews (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Poetry by African Americans – 1997)

First published in 1968, this anthology was one of the first collections of African American poetry specifically created with the young reader in mind. Along with selections from Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, this newly…

Ibi Zoboi (A) and Yusef Salaam (A)

List Price:  $15.99 (Paperback – Overcoming Racism Through Art – 2021) 

New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers…

Wes Moore (A)

List Price: $12.99 (Paperback – Biography / Parallels Two Lives / Same Name – 2013)

For fans of The Wire and Unbroken comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes…

Kevin Powell (A) Hill Harper (Foreward)

List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – Self Help / Mentoring / Man to Man Conversations – 2008)

The Black Male Handbook is a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community,…

Sharon G. Flake (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Survival – 2007)

All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again. With her brassy voice and saucy attitude, 13-year-old Raspberry Hill emerges as a…

Sampson Davis (A), George Jenkins (A), Rameck Hunt (A), Sharon Draper (A)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Biographies / Friendship / Doctors – 2006)

Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George,and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a…

Walter Dean Myers (A) and Guy A Sims (A) and Dawaud Anyabwile (ILT) 

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Juvenile Justice / Narrative – 1999)

A stunning graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’s New York Times bestseller Monster.

Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story about Steve Harmon, a teenager awaiting trial for a murder and robbery.…

Gene Luen Yang (A) and (ILT)

List Price: $14.99 (Paperback – Youth – Culture / Race, Identity, Self Acceptance / Three Asian Students – 2021)

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood…

Sandra Cisneros (A)

List Price: $13.00 (Paperback – Young Latina Girl – 1991)

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero.…

Gregory Walker (A)

List Price $19.99 (Paperback – Ancient Egyptian History – 2015) 

Series: Shades of Memnon (Book 2)

The adventure continues in the second installment of the Shades of Memnon series, where it is 1200 B.C. and a young Kushite must fight for his family’s survival. (212 pgs) 

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Sparks fly when Orion and Ray meet for…

Ibram X. Kendi (A) 

List Price: $27.00  (Hardcover –  Self Help / How To Be An Antiracist – 2019) 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.

“The most courageous book to date on…

Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth.

“With heartfelt prose and unyielding honesty, Baker explores the depths of…

Gregory Walker (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Ancient Egyptian History / Queen Mother Nefertari –  2014)

In world history there has never been a national hero celebrated for as long nor revered as much as Ancient Egypt’s Queen Mother Ahmesh Nefertari. She was a real African heroine who changed the course of…

When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani’s birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love with Tye Brown, the MC. He’s perfect, except . . .

Tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather…

G. Neri (A) and Randy Duburke (ILT)

List Price: $16.95 (Paperback –   South Side Gang Member  – 2010)

Eleven-year old Roger is trying to make sense of his classmate Robert “Yummy” Sandifer’s death, but first he has to make sense of Yummy’s life. Yummy could be as tough as a pit bull…

Lamar Giles (A)

List Price $10.99 (Paperback – High School Crush – 2021)

“Hysterical. I couldn’t put it down.” (Nic Stone) “I laughed, I gasped, I church grunted through every chapter.” (Tiffany D. Jackson) “Heartfelt and hilarious on every page!” (Justin A. Reynolds) 4 starred reviews! * An Indie Next List Pick! * Named one of…