Books & Reading

African American Historical Fiction

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Easy

Wagon Wheels
by Barbara Brenner
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
by Pamela Edwards
Flossie and the Fox
by Pat McKissack
Our People
by Angela Medearis
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
by Margaree Mitchell
Cornrows
by Camille Yarbrough

jFiction

Sounder
by William Howard Armstrong
Blue and the Gray
by Eve Bunting
White Socks Only
by Evelyn Coleman
Jump Ship to Freedom
by James Lincoln Collier
The Slave Dancer
by Paula Fox
The House of Dies Drear
by Virginia Hamilton
Which Way Freedom?
by Joyce Hansen
A Girl Called Boy
by Belinda Hurmence
I Be Somebody
by Hadley Irwin
Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family
by Dolores Johnson
Wagon
by Tony Johnston
The Hundred Penny Box
by Sharon Bell Mathis
My Name is Not Angelica
by Scott O’Dell
Meet Addy
by Connie Porter
Ragtime Tumpie
by Alan Schroeder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
Nettie’s Trip Down South
by Ann Warren Turner
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
by Mildred Pitts Walter

Folktales

Apples on a Stick: The Folklore of Black Children
j398.2
The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be
by William Faulkner
j398.4
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Virginia Hamilton
j398.2 qH221
When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing
by Virginia Hamilton
j398.24528 fH221 1996
John Henry
by Julius Lester
j398.21 qL642 1987
Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by Julius Lester
j398.2 L642 1987
Freedom Riddle
by Angela Medearis
j398.2 qM488 1995