African American U.S. History for Teens

Inheritance

Elizabeth Acevedo

Black Birds in the Sky

Brandy Colbert

Bad Boy: a Graphic Memoir

Walter Dean Myers, Guy A. Sims

How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

Tony Keith Jr.

Bad Boy

Walter Dean Myers

How I Discovered Poetry

Marilyn Nelson

Part of a Story That Started Before Me

Various

A Few Red Drops

Claire Hartfield

King: a Life

Jonathan Eig

Dreams From My Father (adapted for Young Adults)

Barack Obama

Discovering Wes Moore

Wes Moore

Getting Away With Murder

Chris Crowe

The Middle Passage

Tom Feelings

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (scholastic Focus)

Walter Dean Myers

Concrete Kids

Amyra León

When They Call You a Terrorist

Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele

Unbeatable

Phillip Hoose

Stolen Justice: the Struggle for African American Voting Rights (scholastic Focus)

Lawrence Goldstone

Black Indians

William Loren Katz

The Colored Girl Beautiful

Emma Azalea Hackley, E. Azalia Hackley

The Black Friend: on Being a Better White Person

Frederick Joseph

Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Kekla Magoon

We Are Not Yet Equal

Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden

The Many Faces of Josephine Baker

Peggy Caravantes

Passenger on the Pearl

Winifred Conkling

Freedom Summer for Young People

Bruce Watson

A Long Time Coming

Ray Anthony Shepard

Black History Is Your History

Taylor Cassidy

Strange Fruit, Volume I

Joel Christian Gill

Strange Fruit, Volume II

Joel Christian Gill

Bessie Stringfield

Joel Christian Gill

Stupid Black Girl

Aisha Redux, Brianna McCarthy

The Beautiful Struggle (adapted for Young Adults)

Ta-Nehisi Coates