African American Historical Fiction for Teens
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A printable pdf of this booklist is available here (6/2011)
Young Adult historical fiction about African Americans
M.T. Anderson The Astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation series Octavian, a young African American, is brought up as part of a science experiment during the American Revolution.
Katherine Ayres
- North by Night : a Story of the Underground Railroad
- Stealing South : a Story of the Underground Railroad
Two stories of teens helping slaves escape along the Underground Railroad.
Elisa Carbone
Stealing Freedom
Twelve year old Ann Maria decides to escape on the Underground Railroad after her family is sold off.
Chris Crowe
Mississippi Trial, 1955
A 16 year old fights his grandfather about the murder of a 14 year old African American from Chicago.
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
The Watsons, an African American family from Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after their visit to Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Sharon Draper
Two teens, a slave and indentured servant, escape a Carolina plantation to sanctuary in Florida.
Sylvia Patterson is selected to integrate Little Rock’s Central High in 1957.
Nikki Grimes
Jazmin's Notebook
Teenager Jazmin records her life in 1960s Harlem in her diary and poems.
Traci L. Jones
Finding My Place
Tiphanie learns about prejudice as the only African American in her Denver high school in 1975.
Kathryn Lasky
True North
Lucy, 14, is influenced by her abolitionist grandfather in helping a fugitive slave girl.
Julius Lester
Emma has raised the Butler girls, but now their father may sell Emma.
A white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man in 1946.
Love stories from the time of slavery.
Mary Lyons
