Books
Middle Grade Books for independent reading:
Keep It Together, Keiko Carter
We Dream of Space
Land of the Cranes
I Can Make This Promise
A Wish in the Dark
Becoming Muhammad Ali
The Canyon's Edge
The Only Black Girls In Town
King and the Dragonflies
The Brave
Before the Ever After
Isaiah Dunn is My Hero
When Stars are Scattered
Clean Getaway
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Prairie Lotus
Genesis Begins Again
They Called Us Enemy
Maybe He Just Likes You
Efren Divided
Ghost Squad
Free Lunch
Some Places More Than Others
A High Five for Glenn Burke
Love from A to Z
High School-level books for independent reading (you may want to review first or read with your child):
Let Me Hear a Rhyme
Clap When You Land
Pet
Like A Love Story
Not So Pure and Simple
Dragon Hoops
Sadie
Patron Saints of Nothing
Slay
All Boys Aren't Blue
Stamped
We Are Not From Here
Black Brother, Black Brother
The following is a list of middle school and high school level books (you may want to review before your child reads):
Monday's Not Coming
All American Boys
Towers Falling
The 57 Bus
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Just Mercy
Lu
Allegedly
On the Come Up
Speak (novel and graphic novel)
I Am Alfonso Jones
The Sun Does Shine
Hey Kiddo
New Kid
Blended
Internment
Merci Suarez Changes Gears
The Marrow Thieves
The Last Last Day of Summer
Scythe
Rain Reign
Anger is a Gift
A Good Kind of Trouble
Nyxia
The Bridge Home
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Young Adult version)
Shout
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
The Benefits of Being an Octopus
Other Words for Home
Opposite of Always
Dactyl Hill Squad
They Both Die at the End
Barely Missing Everything
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamara
Hurricane Child
The Astonishing Color of After
The Skin I'm In
Monster
They Call Me Guero: A Border Kid's Poems
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Here to Stay
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
With the Fire on High
Look Both Ways
El Deafo
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
For Black Girls Like Me
Jackpot