When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri.
Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.
Fake ID by Lamar Giles
An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead.
Jimi & Me by Jaime Adoff
After his father's tragic death, twelve-year-old Keith James moves from Brooklyn to a small midwestern town where his mixed race heritage is not accepted, but he finds comfort in the music of Jimi Hendrix and the friendship of a white classmate.
More Books --
Black and White by Paul Volponi
Boy21 by Matthew Quick
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Dancer by Lorri Hewett
Fabulous by Simone Bryant
Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser
Invasion! by Walter Dean Myers
Kendra by Coe Booth
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Money Hungry by Sharon Flake
My Name Is Not Friday by Jon Walter
New Boy by Julian Houston
The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
Check out these books on display through March, 18, 2015.
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