Here are some brand new titles featuring Black teens and at least a bit of Black history. (Created January 2024)
When the super strict principal of a tough charter school is found murdered, J.B., Ramón, and Trey are immediately under suspicion, and must find the killer before they are caught in Nick Brooks' Promise Boys.
In Sarah Everett's novel, How to Live Without You, two sisters must find their way back to each other six years after their parents divorce, although it's not clear whether one of them wants to be found.
Lamar Giles's dystopia The Getaway shows how Jay's life at Karloff Country - the place wealthy people go to when they want to escape the world's troubles - is well-paid, fun, and secure, until one of his friends and coworkers (and her family) goes missing with no explanation, and the wealthy guests refuse to leave.
When Avery and her parents visit her dying grandmother, who she barely knows, she is not prepared for the old woman's anger, nor for the town's cover-up of its racist history. Fortunately, two new friends help her handle her family and solve the puzzle of an unsolved murder in Jas Hammonds's novel We Deserve Monuments.
Tiffany D. Jackson's horror novel, The Weight of Blood, follows Maddy, who has always passed as white at her school (following her father's orders). One rainy day reveals to her classmates that she is biracial, and the bullying that follows awakens an energy in her that will erupt at the school's first integrated prom.
Defying laws preventing further enslavement of Africans, a white captain wages big money that he can import a shipful of people from Africa to America against their will in Irene Latham's novel African Town.
Ronald Wimberly's graphic novel Now Let Me Fly tells the true story of Eugene Bullard, one of the first Black fighter pilots, as he makes his way from Jim Crow America to Europe to live freely and eventually fly a plane in World War One.
~Posted by Wally B.
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