African-American History in Young Adult Fiction

North by Night
Stealing South
Katherine Ayres

Ajeemah and His Son
James Berry

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
Christopher Paul Curtis

Copper Sun
Fire from the Rock
Sharon M. Draper

The Slave Dancer
Paula Fox

Which Way Freedom?
Out from This Place
The Heart Calls Home
Joyce Hansen

Day of Tears: a Novel in Dialogue
Julius Lester

Letters from a Slave Girl : the Story of Harriet Jacobs
Mary E. Lyons

Miles' Song
Alice McGill

White Lilacs
Carolyn Meyer

Freedom Songs
Yvette Moore

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Walter Mosley

The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers

Nightjohn
Sarny, a Life Remembered
Gary Paulsen

Numbering All the Bones
Wolf by the Ears
Come Juneteenth
Taking Liberty : the Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave
Ann Rinaldi

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Gary D. Schmidt

If I Just Had Two Wings
Send One Angel Down
Virginia Frances Schwartz

Words by Heart
Ouida Sebestyen

The Land
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Road to Memphis
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor

Marked by Fire
Joyce Carol Thomas

Second Daughter: the Story of a Slave Girl
Mildred Pitts Walter

Black Storm Comin'
Diane L. Wilson

Updated February 2008

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updated : November 4, 2008