African+American+Teen+Fiction+Reading+List

=African American Teen Fiction Reading List =

Author/Title/Year/Level/Lexile
Bolden, Tonya __**Rites of passage: stories about growing up by Black writers from**__  __**around the world**__  (1994) Young Adult N/A Childress, Alice __**Rainbow Jordan**__  (1981) Young Adult 700 Childress, Alice __**Those other people**__  (1989) Young Adult N/A Draper, Sharon M. __**Battle of Jericho, The**__ (2003) Young Adult 700 Draper, Sharon M. __**Darkness before dawn**__ (2001) Young Adult 670 Draper, Sharon M. __**Double Dutch**__ (2002) Young Adult 760 Draper, Sharon M. __**Forged by fire**__ (1997) Young Adult 780 Draper, Sharon M. Young __**Romiette and Julio**__ (1999) Adult 610 Draper, Sharon M. __**Tears of a tiger**__ (1994) Young Adult 700 Flake, Sharon  __**Skin I'm in, The**__  (1998) Young Adult 670 Grimes, Nikki __**Jazmin's notebook**__  (1998) Young Adult 980 Guy, Rosa __**Disappearance, The**__  (1979) Young Adult 620 Guy, Rosa __**Edith Jackson**__  (1978) Young Adult N/A Guy, Rosa __**Mirror of her own**__  (1981) Young Adult N/A Guy, Rosa __**Music of summer, The**__  (1992) Young Adult 690 Guy, Rosa __**New guys around the block**__  (1983) Young Adult N/A Hamilton, Virginia __**Dustland**__ (1980) Young Adult 620 Hamilton, Virginia __**Gathering, The**__ (1981) Young Adult 620 Hamilton, Virginia __**Justice and her brothers**__ (1978) Young Adult 670 Hamilton, Virginia __**Little love, A**__ (1984) Young Adult N/A

Hamilton, Virginia __**M. C. Higgins, the great**__ (1974) Young Adult 620 Hamilton, Virginia __**Magical adventures of Pretty Pearl, The**__ (1983) Young Adult 620 Hamilton, Virginia __**Planet of Junior Brown, The**__ (1971) Young Adult 730 Hamilton, Virginia __**Sweet whispers, Brother Rush**__ (1982) Young Adult 550 Hamilton, Virginia __**White romance, A**__ (1987) Young Adult 490 Hamilton, Virginia __**Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed**__ (1983) Young Adult N/A Johnson, Angela __**Bird**__  (2004) Young Adult 710 Johnson, Angela __**First part last, The**__  (2003) Young Adult 790 Johnson, Angela __**Gone from home: short takes**__  (1998) Young Adult 830 Johnson, Angela __**Heaven**__  (1998) Young Adult 790 Johnson, Angela __**Humming whispers**__  (1995) Young Adult 700 Johnson, Angela __**Toning the sweep**__  (1993) Young Adult 760 Lattany, Kristin Hunter __**Lou in the limelight**__ (1981) Young Adult N/A Lester, Julius __**Othello: a novel**__  (1995) Young Adult 770 Lester, Julius __**Pharaoh's daughter: a novel of ancient Egypt**__ (2000)Young Adult720 Lester, Julius __**This strange new feeling**__  (1982) Young Adult 840 Lester, Julius __**Time's memory**__  (2006) Young Adult 870 Lester, Julius __**When Dad killed Mom**__  (2001) Young Adult N/A Moses, Shelia P. __**Return of Buddy Bush, The**__  (2006) Young Adult 780 Mowry, Jess __**Babylon boyz**__  (1997) Young Adult N/A Mowry, Jess __**Rats in the trees: stories**__  (1990) Young Adult N/A Myers, Walter Dean __**Autobiography of my dead brother**__ (2005)Young Adult 830 Myers, Walter Dean __**Crystal**__ (1987) Young Adult N/A Myers, Walter Dean __**Hoops: a novel**__ (1981) Young Adult 740 Myers, Walter Dean __**Legend of Tarik, The**__ (1981) Young Adult 920 Myers, Walter Dean __**Monster**__ (1999) Young Adult 670 Myers, Walter Dean __**Motown and Didi: a love story**__ (1984) Young Adult 750 Myers, Walter Dean __**Nicholas factor, The: a novel**__ (1983) Young Adult N/A Myers, Walter Dean __**Outside shot, The**__ (1984) Young Adult 770 Myers, Walter Dean __**Righteous revenge of Artemis Bonner, The**__ (1992)Young Adult 980 Myers, Walter Dean __**Scorpions**__ (1988) Young Adult 610 Myers, Walter Dean __**Shadow of the red moon**__ (1995) Young Adult 660 Myers, Walter Dean __**Slam!**__ (1996) Young Adult 750 Myers, Walter Dean __**Somewhere in the darkness**__ (1992) Young Adult 640 Myers, Walter Dean __**Tales of a dead king**__ (1983) Young Adult N/A Myers, Walter Dean __**Young landlords, The**__ (1979) Young Adult 820 Pinkney, Andrea Davis __**Raven in a dove house**__  (1998) Young Adult 780 Taylor, Mildred D. __**Land, The**__  (2001) Young Adult N/A Walter, Mildred Pitts __**Because we are**__ (1983) Young Adult N/A Walter, Mildred Pitts __**Second daughter: the story of**__ __**a slave girl**__ (1996) Young Adult N/A Wesley, Valerie Wilson __**Where do I go from here?**__ (1993) Young Adult 790 Wilkinson, Brenda __**Ludell and Willie**__ (1977) Young Adult N/A Williams, Lori Aurelia __**Shayla's double brown baby blues**__ (2001)Young Adult 850 Williams, Lori Aurelia __**When Kambia Elaine flew in from Neptune**__ (2000) Young Adult850 Woods, Brenda __**Emako Blue**__  (2004) Young Adult 600 Woodson, Jacqueline __**From the notebooks of Melanin Sun**__ (1995) Young Adult 690 Woodson, Jacqueline __**House you pass on the way, The**__ (1997) Young Adult N/A Woodson, Jacqueline __**Hush**__ (2002) Young Adult 640 Woodson, Jacqueline __**I hadn't meant to tell you this**__ (1994) Young Adult 740 Woodson, Jacqueline __**If you come softly**__ (1998) Young Adult 570 Woodson, Jacqueline __**Lena**__ (1999) Young Adult 680 Woodson, Jacqueline __**Miracle's boys**__ (2000) Young Adult 660