GET BOYS READING: A Recommended Reading List #1
RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN BOYS
October, 2011
Ages 4-8
Barnes, Derrick and Boyd, Aaron, Low-down Bad-day Blues, NY, Scholastic, 2004
Daly, Nikki, The Boy on the Beach, NY, Bloomsbury, 2004
Ford, Bernette and Kindert, Jennifer, Hurry Up!, NY Scholastic, 2004
Grimes, Nikki and Lagarrigue, Jerome, My Man Blue, NY, Dial, 1999
Holman, Sandy and Kometiani, Lela, Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?, CA, Culture Co-op, 1998
Holt, Lenny and Ransome, James. How Many Stars in the Sky?, NY, Tambourine, 1991
Johnson, Angela and Mitchell, Rhonda, Daddy Calls Me Man, NY, Orchard, 1997
Smalls, Irene and Hays, Michael, Kevin and His Dad, NY, Little Brown, 1999
Strickland, Michael and Holliday, Keaf, Haircuts at Sleepy Sam’s, PA, Boyds Mill, 1998
Williams, Karen and Cooper, Floyd, A Beach Tail, PA, Boyds Mill, 2010
Ages 9-12
Barnes, Derrick, We Could Be Brothers, NY, Scholastic Press, 2010
Boyd, Candy D., Chevrolet Saturdays, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1993
Draper, Sharon, Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs: The Buried Bones Mystery, NY Simon & Schuster, 2006
Grimes, Nikki, Dark Sons, NY Jump At The Sun, 2005
Hansen, Joyce, The Captive, NY, Scholstic, 1994
Lyons, Kelly Starling, NEATE Book 4: Eddie’s Ordeal, NJ, Just Us Books, 2004
Mead, Alice, Junebug, NY, Yearling, 1995
Myers, Walter, D and J. A. Sims, Sniffy Blue, Ace Detective: the Case of the Missing Ruby and Other Stories, NY, Little Apple, 1999
Patrick, Denise, The Longest Ride, NY, Henry Holt, 1999
Weatherford, Carole B., Obama: Only in America, NY, Marshall Cavendish, 2010
YA
Berry, Rachel, A Slip in the Right Direction, WA, Kimathi Enterprises & Publishing, 2010
Draper, Sharon, We Beat the Street, NY, Puffin, 2005
Garcia, Rita Williams, Fast Talk on a Slow Track, NY, Bantam, Doubleday Dell, 1991
Harper, Hill, Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny, NY, Gotham, 2007
Hansen, Joyce, Which Way Freedom, NY, Avon, 1986
Hunter, Travis, Two the Hard Way, NY, Dafina Books, 2010
Madison, Book T., Unsigned Hype, MI, Revell, 2009
Mowry, Jess, Babylon Boyz, NY, Aladdin, 1997
Myers, Walter, D., Harlem Summer, NY, Scholastic, 2007
Wright, Simeon and Boyd, Herb, Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till, IL, Lawrence Hill Books, 2010
Ages 4-8
Collier, Bryan, Uptown, NY, Henry Holt, 2004
Curtis, Gavin and Lewis, E.B., The Bat Boy and His Violin, NY,
Aladdin, 2001
Evans, Shane W., Olu’s Dream, Katherin Tegen Books,
an Imprint of Harper Collins, 2009
Hudson, Wade and Ford, George, Jamal’s Busy Day, NJ, Just Us
Books, 1991
Nelson, Kadir, He’s Got the Whole World in His
Hands, NY, Puffin, 2005
Pinkney, Brian, Max Found Two Sticks, NY, Aladdin,
1997
Steptoe, Javaka, The Jones Family Express, NY, Lee
& Low, 2003
Steptoe, John, Stevie, NY, Harper Collins,
1986
Tarpley, Natasha and Lewis, E. B., Bippity Bop Barbershop, NY, Little
Brown, 2009
Winans, Carvin and Harrington, Leslie, Conrad Saves Pinger Park, NJ,
Marimba Books, 2010
Ages 9-12
CLE, Troy, The Marvelous Effect, NY, Simon& Schuster, 2008
Curtis, Christopher Paul, The Watsons Go To Birmingham –1963, NY, Laurel Leaf, 2000
Elliott, Zetta and Strickland, Shadra, Bird,NY, Lee & Low, 2008
Ferguson, Dwayne, Kid Caramel: The Case of the Missing Ankh, NY, Just Us Books, 1997
Haskins, James, Freedom Rides, Journey to Justice, NJ, Sankofa Books, an imprint of Just Us Books, 2005
Medina, Tony and Watson, Jesse J., I and I: Bob Marley, NY, Lee & Low, 2009
Nelson, Kadir, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, NY,
Jump at the Sun, 2008
Tyree, Omar, 12 Brown Boys, NJ, Just Us Books, 2008
Walters, Mildred Pitts, Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, NY,
Amistad, Reprint Edition, 2010
Woodson, Jacqueline, Locomotion, NY, Speak, a Puffin Imprint (PB), 2010
YA
Curtis, Christopher Paul, Bucking the Sarge,NY, Laurel Leaf, 2003
Draper, Sharon, Forged by Fire, NY, Simon-Pulse, 1998
Draper, Sharon, Tears of a Tiger, NY Simon-Pulse, 1996
Lester, Julius, Guardian, NY, Amistad, 2008
McDonald, Janet, Brotherhood, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002
Myers, Walter Dean, Handbook for Boys, NY, Amistad, 2003
Myers, Walter Dean, Slam, NY, Scholastic Paperback, 2008
Nerie, G, Ghetto Cowboy, MA, Candlewick, 2011
Woodson, Jacqueline, Behind You, NY, Puffin, Reprint Edition, 2010
Yep, Lawrence, The Star Maker, NY, Harper Collins, 2010
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