African-Americans
(Contemporary, urban-setting)

  •  Between Madison and Palmetto. Jacqueline Woodson. When Margaret's best friend Maizon returns from boarding school and joins her in the eighth grade, they try to resume their friendship while dealing with personal problems and watching their Brooklyn  neighborhood undergo changes.
  • Bluish. Virginia Hamilton
  • Cousins, Virginia Hamilton
  • Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom; Eleanora Tate
  • Front porch stories at the one-room school. Tate, Eleanora E. Twelve-year-old Margie and her younger cousin forget their boredom when Margie's father entertains them with stories about people and events in their small Missouri town's past.
  • Gloria's Way. Ann Cameron.
  • Hoops
  • Just an Overnight Guest; Eleanora Tate
  • Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter is a warm and touching story about a boy who goes out West to visit his grandfather. Here he learns that housework is not just for women - and he enters a biscuit-baking contest.
  • Last summer with Maizon. Jacqueline Woodson. Eleven-year-old Margaret tries to accept the inevitable changes that come one summer when her father dies and her best friend Maizon goes away to a private boarding school.
  • Maizon at Blue Hill. Jacqueline Woodson. After winning a scholarship to an academically challenging boarding school, Maizon finds herself one of only five blacks there and wonders if she will ever fit in.
  • Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street (10 or 11 yr olds?).
  • Miracle's Boys. Jacqueline Woodson. Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship  with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
  • More Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
  • My Name is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada.
  • NO BAD NEWS by Kenneth Cole.
  • Paris, PeeWee and Big Dog Rosa Guy.
  • Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe Greene, Bette
  • Plain City, Virginia Hamilton
  • Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers,
  • Second Cousins. Virginia Hamilton
  • Slam
  • Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
  • Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! Eleanora Tate
  • The dear one. Jacqueline Woodson. Twelve-year-old Feni has to adjust when the pregnant young daughter of an old friend of her mother's comes to stay with them.
  • The Secret of Gumbo Grove Eleanora Tate
  • WHAT'S IN AUNT MARY'S ROOM  by Elizabeth Howard.
  • Word Jar Donavan


    • Authors:
     

  • Betty Howard
  • Eloise Greenfield
  • Ezra Jack Keats
  • Iolette Thomas
  • Irene Smalls,
  • James Berry.
  • Jamila Gavin (about Indian and British Asian children
  • John Agard
  • John Steptoe
  • Joyce Hanson
  • Lucille Clifton
  • Malorie Blackman (about West Indian and Black British children)
  • Mildred Taylor
  • Nikki Grimes
  • Petronella Breinburg
  • Verna Wilkins


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