African American Books Bibliography - Mercer County (NJ) Library

Easy Fiction
Gray, Libba Moore	Little Lil and the Swing-Singing Sax	E GRA
Johnson, Dinah	Sunday Week	E JOH
Johnston, Tony	The Wagon	E JOH
Jordan, Deloris	Salt in His Shoes—Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream	E JOR
Kroll, Virginia	Masai and I	E KRO
Littlesugar, Amy	Freedom School, Yes	E LIT
Littlesugar, Amy	Tree of Hope	E LIT
McKissack, Patricia C.	Goin’ Someplace Special	E McK
Medearis, Angela Shelf	Rum-A-Tum-Tum	E MED
Milich, Melissa	Miz Fannie Mae’s Fine New Easter Hat	E MIL
Miller, William	Richard Wright and the Library Card	E MIL
Nolen, Jerdine	In My Momma’s Kitchen	E NOL
Pinkney, Sandra L.	Shades of Black	E PIN
Rochelle, Belinda	Shades of Black	E ROC
Smalls, Irene	Kevin and His Dad	E SMA
Woodson, Jacqueline	We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past	E WOO
Easy Non-Fiction
Grimes, Nikki	A Pocketful of Poems	ENF 811 GRI
Honey, Jump Back	The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar	ENF 811 DUN
	In Daddy’s Arm I Am Tall—African Americans Celebrating Fathers	ENF 811 IN
Rosales, Melodye Benson	Leola and the Honeybears	ENF 398.2 ROS
San Souci, Robert D.	The Hired Hand	ENF 398.2 SAN
San Souci, Robert D.	The Secret of the Stones	ENF 398.2 SAN

Juvenile Fiction
Ayres, Katherine	Stealing South	J AYR
Bunting, Eve	Your Move	J BUN
Carbone, Elisa	Storm Warriors	J CAR
Greenwood, Barbara	The Last Safe House—A Story of the Underground Railroad	J GRE
Hopkinson, Deborah	From Slave to Soldier	J HOP
Kuklin, Susan	The Harlem Nutcracker	J KUK
McGill, Alice	Miles’ Song	J McG
Parker, Toni Trent	Sienna’s Scrapbook: Our African American Heritage Trip	J PAR
Siegelson, Kim L.	In the Time of the Drums	J SIE
Wesley, Valerie	Freedom’s Gifts	J WES
Juvenile Non-Fiction
Adoff, Arnold (ed.)	I Am the Darker Brother—An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans	JNF 811 I
Allen, Zita	Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement	JNF 920.72 ALL
Ayazi-Hashjin, Sherry	Rap and Hip Hop—The Voice of a Generation	JNF 782.42 AYA
Bentley, Judith	“Dear Friend”—Thomas Garrett & William Still	JNF 973.7 BEN
Bial, Raymond	The Strength of These Arms—Life in the Slave Quarters	JNF 975 BIA
Brennan, Linda Crotta	The Black Regiment of the American Revolution	JNF 973.34 BRE
	Christmas Gif’—An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories Written By and About African Americans	JNF 810.8 CHR
Clinton, Catherine	The Black Soldier—1492 to the Present	JNF 355 CLI
Clinton, Catherine (ed.)	I, Too, Sing America—Three Centuries of African American Poetry	JNF 811 I
Haskins, James	Black, Blue & Gray—African Americans in the Civil War	JNF 973.7 HAS
Haskins, James	Black Stars—African American Entrepreneurs	JNF 920.72 ALL
Haskins, James	The Harlem Renaissance	JNF 700.89 HAS
Haskins, James	Out of the Darkness—The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940	JNF 304.8 HAS
Haskins, James	Black Music in America—A History Through Its People	JNF 781.7 HAS
Hudson, Wade	Powerful Words—More Than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans	JNF 081 HUD
Hudson, Wade & Cheryl (selected)	How Sweet the Sound—African American Songs for Children	JNF 844.008 HUD
Hughes, Langston	Poetry for Young People	JNF 811 HUG
Isserman, Maurice	Journey to Freedom—The African American Great Migration	JNF 975 ISS
Jurmain, Suzanne	Freedom’s Sons—The True Story of the AMISTAD Mutiny	JNF 326 JUR
Katz, William Loren	Black Legacy—A History of New York’s African Americans	JNF 974.71 KAT
King, Casey	Oh, Freedom!—Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen	JNF 973.0496 KIN
Lester, Julius	From Slave Ship to Freedom Road	JNF 759.13 LES
McKissack, Frederick Jr.	Black Hoops—The History of African Americans in Basketball	JNF 796.323 McK
Morrison, Toni	Remember—The Journey to School Integration	JNF 379.2 MOR
Myers, Walter Dean	Amistad—A Long Road to Freedom	JNF 973 MYE
Nelson, Marilyn	A Wreath for Emmett Till	JNF 811 NEL
Nobisso, Josephine	John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire	JNF977.6 NOB
Potter, Joan	African Americans Who Were First	JNF 920 POT
Schlissel, Lillian	Black Frontiers—A History of African American Heroes in the Old West	JNF 978.0049 SCH
Stovall, TaRessa	The Buffalo Soldiers	JNF 978 STO
Strickland, Michael R.	African-American Poets	JNF 920 STR
Sullivan, George	Black Artists in Photography, 1840-1940	JNF 920 SUL
Sutcliffe, Andrea (ed.)	Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You	JNF 976.8 MIG
Taylor, Kimberly Hayes	Black Abolitionists and Freedom Fighters	JNF 973.0496 TAY
Thomas, Joyce Carol	Gingerbread Days	JNF 811 THO
Tillage, Leon Walter	Leon’s Story	JNF 975.6 TIL
Weatherford, Carole Boston	The Sound That Jazz Makes	JNF 781.65 WEA
Zeinert, Karen	The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition	JNF 326 ZEI
Biography
Butler, Mary	Sojourner Truth—From Slave to Activist for Freedom	JB TRU
Dean, Walter	The Greatest—Muhammad Ali	JB ALI
Duggleby, John	Story Painter—The Life of Jacob Lawrence	JB LAW
Fleischner, Jennifer	I Was Born a Slave—The Story of Harriet Jacobs	JB JAC
Golenbock, Peter	Hank Aaron: Brave in Every Way	JB AAR
Gourse, Leslie	Wynton Marsalis—Trumpet Genius	JB MAR
Graves, Renee	Malcolm X	JB X
Hart, Philip S.	Up In the Air—The Story of Bessie Coleman	JB COL
Lasky, Kathryn	A Voice of Her Own—The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet	JB WHE
Lyons, Mary E.	Catching the Fire—Philip Simmons, Blacksmith	JB SIM
McKissack, Patricia & Frederick	Langston Hughes—Great American Poet	JB HUG
Medearis, Angela Shelf	Princess of the Press—The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett	JB WEL
Munoz, Pam	When Marian Sang—The True Recital of Marian Anderson	JB AND
Nicholson, Lois	Booker T. Washington—A Modern Moses	JB WAS
Orgill, Roxane	If I Only Had a Horn—Young Louis Armstrong	EB ARM
Robinson, Sharon	Promises To Keep—How Jackie Robinson Changed America	JB ROB
Rockwell, Anne	Only Passing Through—The Story of Sojourner Truth	JB TRU
Schomp, Virginia	He Fought For Freedom—Frederick Douglass	JB DOU
Williams, Carla	Thurgood Marshall—Journey To Freedom	JB MAR
Wood, Michele	Going Back Home—An Artist Returns To the South	JB WOO
Young Adult
Ringgold, Faith	We Flew Over the Bridge—The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold	YB RIN
Rinaldi, Ann	Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons—The Story of Phillis Wheatley	YB WHE
Houston, Julian	New Boy	Y HOU
Mosley, Walter	47	Y MOS
Paulsen, Gary	Sarny, A Life Remembered	Y PAU
Taylor, Mildred	The Land	Y TAY
Willard, Tom	Buffalo Soldiers	Y WIL
Harris, Jacqueline	The Tuskegee Airmen—Black Heroes of World War II	YNF 940.5 HAR
King, Martin Luther Jr.	Why We Can’t Talk	YNF 301.451 KIN
Stack, Carol	Call to Home—African Americans Reclaim the Rural South	YNF 304.8 STA
Goss, Linda (ed.)	Talk that Talk—An Anthology of African American Storytelling	YNF 398.2 TAL