African American Voices for Kids and Teens: OBOC Spring 2003 Further ReadingLike this list

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• The African American Family Album

  Hoobler, Dorothy

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  This intimate and immediate book preserves and presents firsthand the experiences of millions of lives gathered from pictures, letters, interviews and diaries. (Ages 12 and up)

• Barack Obama

  Son of Promise, Child of Hope

  Grimes, Nikki

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  Nikki Grimes's lyrical text and Bryan Collier's distinctive collages tell the inspirational story of Barack Obama. A Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009. (Ages 5-10)

• The Block

  Poems

  Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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  Brilliant and bold illustrations accompany 13 of Hughes’ poems about African American city life. (Ages 9-12)

• Bronx Masquerade

  Grimes, Nikki

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  High school classes express their thoughts in a poetry assignment and learn details about each others' lives that reveal the depth of their feelings. (Ages 13 and up)

• DeShawn Days

  Medina, Tony

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  You are invited to join 10-year-old DeShawn Williams as he gives a tour of his neighborhood and daily life. (Ages 7-11)

• Evan's Corner

  Hill, Elizabeth Starr

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  Evan lives in a crowded apartment, but there is still enough room for each family member to have their own special place. (Ages 4-7)

• Families

  Poems Celebrating the African American Experience

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  Poems by such writers as Gwendolyn Brooks and Arnold Adoff pay joyous tribute to family diversity and togetherness. (Ages 6-9)

• Hush

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Toswiah/Evie and her family have to leave their neighborhood after they are touched by a crime, and it is then that they have to learn who they are together and as individuals. (Ages 12-15)

• In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers

  a Black Family Treasury by Outstanding Authors and Artists

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  This amazing compilation of words and images tells a powerful story of families and role models. (Ages 12 and up)

• Jazmin's Notebook

  Grimes, Nikki

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  Jazmin shares her thoughts and views of the world from the front stoop of her 1960s Harlem apartment building, a place shared by numbers’ runners, an alcoholic mother and all the potential happiness possible in the mind of a 14-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lorraine Hansberry

  Playwright and Voice of Justice

  Scheader, Catherine

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  This is a book that provides fascinating insight into the author’s life and influences. (Ages 10 and up)

• Mississippi Challenge

  Walter, Mildred Pitts

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  From the time of slavery to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, this title chronicles the incredible struggle of African Americans in Mississippi. (Ages 12 and up)

• The Palm of My Heart

  Poetry by African American Children

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  Twenty inner-city kids contributed to this moving anthology filled with powerful words and feelings. For older readers. (Ages 7-10)

• Sweet Words So Brave

  the Story of African American Literature

  Curry, Barbara K.

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  An imagined conversation between a man and his granddaughter provides an introduction to the many magnificent words told and written from slave narratives to the works of modern day. (Ages 11-14)

• Tell All the Children Our Story

  Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America

  Bolden, Tonya

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  Learn about the lives of African American children from the time of slavery to the present. (Ages 12 and up)

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

  a Novel

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  This is an award-winning and exciting account of a family from the North traveling to Alabama during the early days of the civil rights movement. (Ages 10-13)