This list was made for readers in partnership in the Frank X. Walker Literary Festival 2021
Black Boy Joy
Kwame Mbalia
Blended
Sharon M. Draper
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams
Ghost
Jason Reynolds
Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes
A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramée
New Kid
Jerry Craft
How High the Moon
Karyn Parsons
Hurricane Child
Kheryn Callender
The Jumbies
Tracey Baptiste
The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer
Lamar Giles
Like Vanessa
Tami Charles
My Life As an Ice Cream Sandwich
Ibi Zoboi
The Long Ride
Marina Tamar Budhos
Something to Say
Lisa Moore Ramée
Class Act
Jerry Craft
One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia
The Parker Inheritance
Varian Johnson
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon
So Done
Paula Chase
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
David Barclay Moore
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Kwame Mbalia
Shuri: a Black Panther Novel (Marvel)
Nic Stone
Clean Getaway
Nic Stone
Look Both Ways
Jason Reynolds
Child of the Dream
Sharon Robinson
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Janae Marks
March Forward, Girl
Melba Pattillo Beals
Becoming Muhammad Ali
James Patterson, Kwame Alexander
Betty Before X
Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson
The Harlem Charade
Natasha Tarpley
When Life Gives You Mangos
Kereen Getten
The Last Mirror on the Left
Lamar Giles
Turning Point
Paula Chase
Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson
The Usual Suspects
Maurice Broaddus
Take Back the Block
Chrystal D. Giles
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
Kelly J. Baptist
Some Places More Than Others
Renée Watson
(untitled)
(none)
What Lane?
Torrey Maldonado
Serena Says
Tanita S. Davis
The Magic in Changing Your Stars
Leah Henderson
The Only Black Girls in Town
Brandy Colbert
Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson
Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson
Twins (Twins #1)
Varian Johnson
Jayla Jumps in
Joy Jones
(untitled)
(none)
Arcade and the Triple T Token
Rashad Jennings
(untitled)
(none)
Definitely Daphne
Tami Charles
Planet Middle School
(none)
Twinchantment (Twinchantment Series #1)
Elise Allen
Dough Boys
Paula Chase
As Brave As You
Jason Reynolds
Stella by Starlight
Sharon M. Draper
For Black Girls Like Me
Mariama J. Lockington
Glory Be
Augusta Scattergood
Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Jackson
Root Magic
(none)
Martin Rising
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Stamped (for Kids)
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Forever This Summer
Leslie C. Youngblood
Josephine Against the Sea
Shakirah Bourne
Marcus Makes a Movie
Kevin Hart
Training Camp
Wesley King, Kobe Bryant
A High Five for Glenn Burke
Phil Bildner
A Whole New Ballgame
Phil Bildner
Maya and the Robot
Eve L. Ewing
Amari and the Night Brothers
B. B. Alston
Maya and the Rising Dark
Rena Barron
Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found
Rucker Moses, Theo Gangi
Sci-Fu
Yehudi Mercado
Finding Langston
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Dragons in a Bag
Zetta Elliott
Just South of Home
Karen Strong
The Forgotten Girl
India Hill Brown
Hide and Seeker
Daka Hermon
Ikenga
Nnedi Okorafor
Dactyl Hill Squad
Daniel José Older
Ophie's Ghosts
Justina Ireland
Star Wars Project Luminous Middle Grade Novel
Justina Ireland
Paradise on Fire
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Partly Cloudy
Tanita S. Davis
Playing a Dangerous Game
Patrick Ochieng
A Soft Place to Land
Janae Marks
Unti H. G. Celeb MG Novel
LeBron James, Andrea Williams
Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Jason Reynolds
Keeping It Real
Paula Chase
Last Gate of the Emperor
Kwame Mbalia, Prince Joel Makonnen
Playing the Cards You're Dealt
Varian Johnson
The Shadow Prince
David Anthony Durham
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels (LOA #348)
Virginia Hamilton
The Swag Is in the Socks
Kelly J. Baptist
Wildseed Witch (Book 1)
Marti Dumas
Rain Rising
Courtne Comrie
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
Sherri Winston
Be Real, Macy Weaver
Lakita Wilson
We Were the Fire
Shelia P. Moses
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
Roseanne Brown
A Taste of Magic
J. Elle
Etta Invincible
Reese Eschmann
Eden's Everdark
Karen Strong
