TEEN & YOUNG ADULT / GRADES 6-12

Jacob Hoye (A)

List Price:$30.00 (Paperback – Biography / Hip Hop Artist / Rapper – 2006)

Capturing as never before the matchless passion and searing honesty of the late Tupac Shakur, the brilliant young rapper, actor, and poet who was mysteriously gunned…

Jason Alexander (A) and Ibrahm X. Kendi (A) 

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism–and antiracism–in America

This is NOT a history book.
This…

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…

Greg Zuckerman (A), Elijah Zuckerman (A) and Gabriel Zuckerman (A) 

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Athletes Bios / Motivation – 2017)

Discover inspirational real-life stories of superstar athletes in this collection of sports biographies featuring LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Tim Howard, and more!
     
Team USA goalkeeper Tim Howard was diagnosed with Tourette…

Walter Dean Myers (A)

List Price: $13.99 (Paperback – Auto Biography – 2002)

In a memoir that is gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable, New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers travels back to his roots in the magical world of Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Here is the story of one…

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, Liam, and all the characters that fans first met in New Kid, winner of the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Award!

In this…

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.…

Sean Covey (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Success Strategies for Teens- 2017)

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives—now updated for today’s social media age.

In this newly revised edition, Sean…

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…

Nikki Giovannni (A), Tupac Shakur (A) and Leila Steinberg (Photo)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Poetry / Hip Hop – 1999)

His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic — a violent homage to the power of his voice.…

Angie Thomas (A)

List Price: $21.99 (Hardcover – Fiction / Prep School / Teen Murder / Violence – 2017) 

A National Book Award Long list title with eight starred reviews!

#1 New York Times Bestseller!

“Absolutely riveting!” —Jason Reynolds

“Stunning.”—John Green

“This story is necessary. This story is important.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Heartbreakingly…

Hill Harper (A)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Mentoring / Boys / Guidance and Life Skills – 2007)

Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success.

Based on the author…

Denise Dennis (A) and Susan Willmarth (ILT)

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback- Graphic Novel / African American History – 2007)

This book covers a rich history often ignored. It chronicles the struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa right up through Civil Rights and the different kind of struggle Blacks face today. (192 pgs)

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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…

Barack Obama (A)

List Price: $45.00 (Hardcover – Biography -President Barack Obama -2020)

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
 
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable…

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…

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…

Fuel smart, play hard, recover strong with the trusted nutrition guide for high school and college athletes.

Sports Nutrition for Young Adults gives you the proven playbook to eat for peak performance. Written by registered dietitian Jackie Slomin, MS, RDN―an expert in sports nutrition for teens―this book translates the latest science into simple, actionable…

Paul Von Blum (A) and Elizabeth Von Notias & Ramsess (ILT)

List Price:$16.99 (Paperback – Biography / Activist / Singer/ Actor / Athlete – 2013)

Paul Robeson, despite being one of the greatest Renaissance figures in American history, still remains in relative anonymity. An exceptional scholar, lawyer, athlete, stage and screen actor, linguist,…

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback- Teen / Politics / Choices / Basketball – 2012)

Tara Sullivan (A)

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

“Harrowing but ultimately redemptive…the murder…

Traci L. Jones (A)

List Price: $11.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Friendship / High School / Challenges and Hope – 2010)

Patrice Williams was happy living in Georgia with her grandmother, then her mother lured her to Chicago and ended up in jail. Living in the projects, Patrice is an easy target…

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…

Carter G. Woodson (A)

List Price: $9.95 (Paperback – Denounces Eurocentric Education / Supports Black Studies – First Pub. 1933)

The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American…

Ta-Nehisi Coates (A) and Wilfredo Torres (ILT)

List Price: $16.98 (Paperback – Graphic Novel / Black Super Hero – 2017)

Where next for the Black Panther? Find out as a sensational new arc begins! Eons ago – before Black Panthers, before Wakanda, before time itself – there were only the Orishas! The pantheon…

IDK! is a fictional but realistic story told through the eyes of the protagonist Kyndle, who is working on an International Day project.

When Kyndle’s teacher unexpectedly asked the class to name their cultural food, he doesn’t know the answer. Kyndle goes to his village for answers and discovered that the foods he loves…

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"…

Tanita S. Davis (A)

List Price: $12.99 (Paperback – Family / Grandmother and Granddaughters / Travel / Self – Discovery – 2011)

A Coretta Scot King Award Winner

Description: Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than…

John Lewis (A) and Andrew Aydin (A) and Nate Powell (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Civil Rights Era / Leader / Congressman – 2016)

One of the Best Books of 2016” – Publishers Weekly

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling

MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon…

Jaqueline Woodson (A) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover -Teen Relationship /Bi-Racial – 2018)

A lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson–now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author

Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when…

A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!

The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike…

Nnedi Okorafor (A) 

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – SciFi / African Mythology and Fantasy / Warrior Sista – 2017)

The newest novel by the author of Akata Witch and the forthcoming Marvel comic book series about Shuri, Black Panther’s sister!

“The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” —Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Speak

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Herb Boyd (A) and Lance Tooks (ILT)

List Price: $15.95 (Paperback – African American History / Black Panthers / Civil Rights Era 2015)

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with…

Ermila Moodley (A)

List Price: $10.95 (Paperback – Young Adult Fiction / Relocation / Culture Confusion – 2007)

When her father is transferred from his position as a professor at a Capetown, South Africa university to Buena Vista, California, Thandie Sobukwe says goodbye to her friends, family and favorites places and hello…

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…

Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially…

Chinua Achebe (A)

List Price: $13.00 (Paperback – African History / Post Colonization – 1994)

Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a äóìstrong manäó? of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and…

Hill Harper (A)

List Price: $18.00 (Paperback / Mentoring / Girls / Guidance and Life Skills – 2008)

Now more popular then ever: the New York Times bestselling book of inspirational advice and wisdom for young women from the powerhouse public speaker, star of CSI: NY, and bestselling author of Letters to a Young…

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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Langston Hughes (A)

List Price:$11.99 (Paperback – Poetry / Harlem Renaissance – 1996)

Illustrated in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney’s scratchboard art on every…

Candice Carty-Williams (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Paperback – Young Black Woman – 2019)

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT!

“[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” —Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak…

Nic Stone (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Fiction / Social Justice / Racism – 2017)

“Powerful, wrenching.” – JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down

“Raw and gripping.” –JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys

“A must-read!” –ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give

Raw, captivating,…

Angela Johnson (A)

List Price: $10.99 (Paperback – Deception and Self Discovery – 2010)

You never know what’s gonna come down — in Heaven.

At fourteen, Marley knows she has Momma’s hands and Pops’s love for ice cream, that her brother doesn’t get on her nerves too much, and that Uncle Jack…

Akwaeke Emezi (A)

List Price $12.99 (Paperback – Teen Novel Explores Themes on Identity and Justice – 2020) 

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times • Time…

Deborah Day (A) and Adrienne Drayton (ILT)

List Price: $14.95 (Paperback – Curriculum / Health, Culture and Life Skills)

The Mindful Messages Mentoring Program is an innovative African Centered Health Education, Culture and Life Skills Curriculum for youth ages 11-18. It perfect for Home Scholars, Rites of Passage, After School and…

Brittney Morris (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover –  Teen Black Gamer / Racism/ Identity/ Drama -2019)

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019!
“Gripping and timely.” —People
“The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that’ll keep you down for…