African Americans | Batavia High School Media Center

Tyrell

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

African Americans, Bronx (New York, N.Y.), fiction, Homeless persons, Poor

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Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to li

20th century, African Americans, Black Muslims, Civil rights movements, Family

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Rooftop

Paul Volponi

Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that

African Americans, Death, Drug abuse, Family, Family life

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Monster

Walter Dean Myers

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the cou

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Murder)

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Hip-hop High School

Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Theresa Anderson and Devon Hampton set out to beat the SAT in order to get into a top college; however, they must also deal with the reality of street violence that could keep them both from realizing

African Americans, fiction, High schools, Schools, Violence

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Freedom Walkers

Russell Freedman

Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott and the key persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses.

20th century, African Americans, Biography, Civil rights workers, History

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Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to

18th century, African Americans, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction, Florida

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African-american Poets

Presents important works of criticism on ten African-American poets, including Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Derek Walcott, and provides bibliographies and short biographies.

20th century, African Americans, African Americans in literature, American poetry, History and criticism

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham-- 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of

African Americans, Birmingham (Ala.), Brothers and sisters, Children's audiobooks, Family

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From Pieces to Weight

50 Cent

Musician 50 Cent recounts his childhood in southside Queens, describing the events and people who influenced his music career and his life.

(Musician), 50 Cent, African Americans, Biography, Rap musicians

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