Copper Sun (2007)
By Sharon Draper
YA Drake
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (2006)
By Julius Lester
YA Lester
Remember the Journey to School Intergration (2005)
By Toni Morrison
J 379.2
The First Part Last (2004)
By Angela Johnson
YA Johnson
Bronx Masquerade (2003)
By Nikki Grimes
YA Grimes
The Land (2002)
By Mildred Taylor
J Taylor
Miracle Boys (2001)
By Jacqueline Woodson
YA Woodson
Bud, Not Buddy (2000)
By Christopher Paul Curtis
J Curtis
Heaven (1999)
By Angela Johnson
YA Johnson
Forged by Fire (1998)
By Sharon Draper
YA Draper
Slam (1997)
By Walter Dean Myers
YA Myers
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (1996)
By Virginia Hamilton
J 398 Hamilton
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (1995)
By Patricia C. & Frederick L. McKissack
JH 975.03 McKissack
Toning the Sweep ( 1994)
By Angela Johnson
YA Johnson
Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1993)
By Patricia A. McKissack
J McKissack
Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom ( 1992)
By Walter Dean Myers
J 973.049 Myers
The Road to Memphis (1991)
By Mildred D. Taylor
J Taylor
The Long Hard Journey: The Storty of Pullman Porter (1990)
By Patricia C & Frederick L. McKissack
J 331.88 McKissack
Fallen Angels (1989)
By Walter Dean Myers
YA Myers
The Friendship (1988)
By Mildred L. Taylor
J Taylor
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (1987)
By Mildred Pitts Walter
J Walter
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (1986)
By Virginia Hamilton
J 398 Hamilton
Motown and Didi (1985) *
By Walter Dean Myers
Everett Anderson’s Good-bye (1984) *
By Lucille Clifton
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1983) *
By Virginia Hamilton
Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1982)
By Mildred D. Taylor J Taylor
This Life (1981)
By Sidney Poitier
B Poitier
The Young Landlords (1980) *
By Walter Dean Myers
Escape to Freedom (1979)
By Ossie Davis J 812
Africa Dream (1978)*
By Eloise Greenfield
The Story of Stevie Wonder (1977)*
By James Haskins
Duey's Tale (1976)*
By Pearl Bailey
The Legend of Africania (1975)*
By Dorothy Robinson
Ray Charles (1974)*
By Sharon Bell Mathis
I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (1973)
B Robinson
17 Black Artists (1972) *
Elton C. Fax
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes (1971)*
By Charlemae Rollins
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (1970)
By Lillie Patterson JB King
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2007)
By Kadir Nelson
JB Tubman
Rosa (2006)
Illustrated by Bryan Collier; text by Nikki Giovanni
JB Parks
Ellington Was Not a Street (2005)
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson; text by Ntozake Shange
E Shange
Beautiful Blackbird (2004)
By Ashley Bryan
J 398 Bryan
Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman (2003)
Illustrated by E.B. Lewis; Text by Nikki Grimes
JB Coleman
Goin' Someplace Special (2002)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
E McKissack
Uptown (2001)
By Bryan Collier E Collier
In the Time of the Drums (2000)
Brian Pinkney; text by Kim L. Siegelson
E Siegelson
I See the Rhythm: a Story of African American Music (1999)
Illustrated by Michele Wood; text by Toyomi Igus
J 780 Igus
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (1998)
By Javaka Steptoe
J 811.008 In
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (1997)
Illustrated Jerry Pinkney; text by Alan Schroeder
JB Tubman
The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo (1996)
By Tom Feelings
O 759.13 Feelings
The Creation (1995)
Illustrated by James Ransome; text by James Weldon Johnson
J 811 Johnson
Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1994)
Illustrated by Tom Feelings; text ed. by Phyllis Fogelman
J 811 Soul
The Origin of Life On Earth: An African Creation Myth (1993)
Illustrated by: Kathleen Atkins Wilson; retold by David A. Anderson
J 398 Anderson
Tar Beach (1992)
By Faith Ringgold
E Ringgold
Aida (1991)
By Leo and Diane Dillon; text by Leontyne Price
J 782.10269 Price
Nathaniel Talking (1990)
Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist; text by Eloise Greenfield
J 811 Greenfeild
Mirandy and Brother Wind (1989)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Patricia McKissack
E McKissack
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale (1988)
By John Steptoe
J 398 Steptoe
Half a Moon and One Whole Star (1987)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Crescent Dragonwag
E Dragonwag
The Patchwork Quilt (1986)
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text by Valerie Flournoy
E Flournoy
My Mama Needs Me (1984)*
Illustrated by Pat Cummings; text by Mildred Pitts Walter
Black Child (1983)*
By Peter Mugabane
Mother Crocodile: Maman-Caiman (1982)
Illustrated by John Steptoe; text by Birago Diop, translated and adapted by Rosa Guy
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (1981)*
By Ashley Bryan
Cornrows (1980)*
Illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Camille Yarborough
Something on My Mind (1979)*
By Tom Feelings; text by Nikki Grimes
African Dream (1978)*
Illustrated by Carole Bayard; text by Eloise Greenfield
Ray Charles (1974)*
Illustrated by George Ford; text by Sharon Bell Mathis
* not available at TCPL as of yet; if we do not own the book an interlibrary loan can be placed for you.