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Black History Month Reads for Teens (VPL)

A list of non-fiction, fiction, graphic novels and poetry that celebrate Black voices and illuminate Black history.

Vancouver Public Library

40 items

  • Those Who Saw the Sun

    African American Oral Histories From the Jim Crow South

    Avery, Jaha Nailah
    BookMontclair : Levine Querido, 2023. — YA305.896 A95t
  • Nearer My Freedom

    the Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

    Edinger, Monica, 1952-
    BookMinneapolis : Zest Books , [2023] — YA326.92 E64e
  • BookNew York : Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2022. — YA004.69092 C47b
  • BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2021. — YA306.48 C45c1
  • A Long Time Coming

    a Lyrical Biography of Race in America From Ona Judge to Barack Obama

    Shepard, Ray Anthony
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2023] — YA305.800973 S54L
  • In the Name of Emmett Till

    How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

    Mayer, Robert H., 1950-
    BookMontgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2021] — YA323.173 M46i
  • Sister Outsider

    Essays and Speeches

    Lorde, Audre
    BookBerkeley, Calif. : Crossing Press, c2007. — YA828 L867s
  • Revolution in Our Time

    the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

    Magoon, Kekla
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021. — YA323.173 M21r
  • Trailblazers

    The Black Pioneers Who Have Shaped Canada

    Ridley-Padmore, Tiyahna
    BookToronto, Ontario : IndigoPress, 2020. — J971.004 R546t
  • BookToronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2022] — YA FIC
  • Augusta Savage

    the Shape of a Sculptor's Life

    Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
    BookNew York : Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — YA730.973 S26n
  • Black Birds in the Sky

    the Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    Colbert, Brandy
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — YA976.6 C68b
  • BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021. — YA FIC