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• After Tupac & D Foster

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  The story of three girls growing up in 1996 in Queens while listening to the music of Tupac Shakur.

• 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.

• American Hip-hop

  Rappers, DJs, and Hard Beats

  Sacks, Nathan

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  Hip-Hop music is one of the ways that many African Americans found their voices as it busted out of NYC in the 1970's. Find out how hip-hop grew from a city music movement to a world-wide sensation.

• 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' assistance was given all the credit.

• Brown Girl Dreaming

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Author Jacqueline Woodson recounts in verse what life was like for her as an African American growing up in the 1960s and 70s in South Carolina and New York.

• Come August, Come Freedom

  the Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel

  Amateau, Gigi, 1964-

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  The story of a rebellion of enslaved people in Richmond, Virginia well before the Civil War led by a slave named Gabriel.

• Counting by 7s

  Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-

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  Willow Chance is a genius. Her parents are tragically killed in a car accident. The story follows Willow as she navigates her way through life after the loss of her parents.

• 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. Written in free verse poetry.

• 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.

• Darius & Twig

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  Two friends grow up in Harlem; one is a runner, and one is a writer.

• Discovering Wes Moore

  Moore, Wes, 1978-

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  A Rhodes scholar/combat veteran tells of the factors that influenced him and another man of the same name and neighborhood to follow completely different paths. One to a life of crime and the other to a life of accomplishment.

• 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.

• Ghetto Cowboy

  Neri, Greg

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  When Cole is left with his estranged father in inner-city Philly, he has no idea that riding horses and ghetto cowboys will bring them together.

• 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 send John Glenn into space and win the Cold War.