African American

Bad Blood

James H. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Prince

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Escaping the Delta

Elijah Wald

Rough Crossings

Simon Schama

I Never Had It Made

Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett

Too Much of a Good Thing

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Welfare Wifeys

K'wan, Cary Hite

Aftermath

Tracy Brown, Allyson Johnson

Junebug

Alice Mead

And Mistress Makes Three

Francis Ray

If You Were My Man

Francis Ray

Claudette Colvin

Phillip Hoose

Not Even If You Begged

Francis Ray

Freewater (newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner)

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Celeste's Harlem Renaissance

Eleanora E. Tate

The Chosen One

Echo Brown

Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica Locke

Heaven, My Home

Attica Locke

Black Star

Kwame Alexander

Every Man a King

Walter Mosley

Trouble Is What I Do

Walter Mosley

Blood Grove

Walter Mosley

How the Word Is Passed

Clint Smith

Guide Me Home

Attica Locke

Wrecked

Joe Ide, Sullivan Jones

Down the River Unto the Sea

Walter Mosley, Dion Graham

Smoke

Joe Ide

Gray Dawn

Walter Mosley

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right

Dion Graham, Walter Mosley

Split the Sky (coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)

Marie Arnold