CRRL Teens: Our Stories: The African American Experience for Teens 2017-2018Like this list

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• All American Boys

  Reynolds, Jason

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  When Rashad is hospitalized by a white police officer, both he and Quinn, his classmate who witnessed the event, must deal with the racial tensions dividing their community.

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  In a memoir written as a letter to his son, Coates talks about the influence of race on American history, his own history, and his son’s future.

• The Boy in the Black Suit

  Reynolds, Jason

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  While coping with his mother’s death, Matt takes a job at a funeral parlor.

• Breakthrough!

  How Three People Saved "blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever

  Murphy, Jim, 1947-

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  In 1944, African American Lab Assistant Vivien Thomas found a technique that repaired a heart defect in newborns, but the surgeon performing with Thomas’s assistance was given all the credit.

• Courage Has No Color

  the True Story of the Triple Nickles : America's First Black Paratroopers

  Stone, Tanya Lee

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  The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, formed when the U.S. Army was racially segregated, was assigned to a secret mission called Operation Firefly.

• The Crossover

  Alexander, Kwame

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  Two basketball-playing brothers are faced with many challenges as their father’s health worsens.

• Currents

  Smolik, Jane Petrlik

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  A bottle carried on the currents, containing a note and necklace, unites three young girls across the sea.

• Everything, Everything

  Yoon, Nicola

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  Maddy, a biracial 18-year-old, is allergic to everything and can’t leave her carefully sealed home. Then Olly moves in next door, inspiring Maddy to start breaking all the rules.

• Forgotten Bones

  Uncovering a Slave Cemetery

  Huey, Lois Miner

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  Thirteen human remains found in upstate New York are identified as having been enslaved through archaeology.

• The Game of Love and Death

  Brockenbrough, Martha

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  The stakes are high when two teens - one an African American orphan who dreams of being a pilot, the other from a wealthy white family - fight for love during the Great Depression.

• Ghost

  Reynolds, Jason

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  Ghost is used to running away from his troubles, but when he unexpectedly joins a local track team he must learn how to channel his abilities toward a better end.

• Hidden Figures

  the Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space

  Lee Shetterly, Margot

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  African American women go to work as “human computers” where they use their exceptional mathematical skills to land John Glenn on the moon and help the U.S. win the Cold War.

• Hip Hop Family Tree. 2, 1981-1983

  Piskor, Ed

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  This graphic novel series details the birth and rise of hip-hop music and culture in glorious full-colored artwork.

• In the Shadow of Liberty

  the Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

  Davis, Kenneth C.

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  The American institution of slavery as seen though the lives of five men who were owned by some of our most well-known presidents.

• Jump Back, Paul

  the Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Derby, Sally

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  The story of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a famous poet who wrote in dialect and Standard English, with his poetry interwoven in the narrative.

• Life in Motion

  An Unlikely Ballerina

  Copeland, Misty

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  Misty Copeland, the first female African American principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, describes the success and challenges of her life as a ballerina.

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  Congressman John Lewis’s first-person account of the Civil Rights Movement.

• Monster

  a Graphic Novel

  Sims, Guy A.

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  In this graphic novel adaptation, teenager Steve Harmon tries to make sense of his life while on trial for armed robbery and murder.

• Night on Fire

  Kidd, Ronald

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  Billie thinks segregation is wrong and is glad when the Freedom Riders come to town, but not everyone shares her excitement.

• Out of Darkness

  Pérez, Ashley Hope

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  Set against the school explosion in New London, Texas in 1937, can Naomi and Washington find love while faced with deeply rooted racism?