Suggested Reading for At-Risk African American 9th Graders
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compiled by Jennifer Halla (jenh_lib@yahoo.com)
from posts to YALSA-BK, September 2000


"Buried Onions" by Gary Soto
"Like Sisters on the Homefront" by Rita
Williams-Garcia
"Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
"Push" by Sapphire (adult book with adult themes)
"Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon Draper
"Jazmin's Notebook" by Nikki Grimes
"Life in Prison" by Tookie Williams
"Wrestling Renegades" by Dan Cohen
"Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom" by
Katherine Arnoldi
"Sing the Sun Up: Creative Writing Ideas from
African-American Literature" by Lorenzo Thomas
"Brown Girl in the Ring" by Nalo Hopkinson
"Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
"A Life for a Life" by Ernest Hill
"Making Up Megaboy" by Virgnina Walter
"Make Lemonade" by Virginia Euwer Wolff
"Concrete Candy" by Apollo
"Imani All Mine" by Connie Porter
"The Rose that Grew from Concrete" by Tupac Shakur
Mel Glenn's verse novels