Fiction - Black Reads

Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping--crucial to understanding life in the southern United States--from Emancipation to the twen...

This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we writ...

When Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times. I will t...

Twelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master falls into...

Daylen (one of the characters from the Beautiful Me Series) is excited and ready to share everything he knows about Juneteenth. Juneteenth is an en...

Lucy Ann and Dabney Walker didn't have to risk their lives to spy for the Union army. The couple had already risked everything to escape slavery th...

Alvin Fernald is back Not only back, but he finds himself in the middle of a mystery as exciting and hilarious as The Marvelous Inventions of Alvi...

Peter Farrow is a slave. He's grown up on Dover Plantation, South Carolina where he does small jobs. When he's not working, Peter likes to play wit...

Stories of The Buffalo Soldiers have not been portrayed in history books enough. Abdullah Bin Juttie felt a responsibility to tell this story, givi...

Accelerated Reader Quiz available: #117017Eleven-year-old Solomon Freeman and his parents, newly freed slaves, are building a homestead in north Fl...

Twelve-year-old Charlotte lives on a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, where the American Civil War is raging. All around her, citizens and the Con...

"An unforgettable historical, high-octane adventure." -- Dav Pilkey, author-illustrator of the Dog Man seriesMagdalys's connection with the dinosau...

Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. Cover may ...

Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!7 starred reviews! "Monumental." --Booklist (starred review) * "A marathon masterpiece."--Kirkus (starre...

In New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers's final novel, he delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as "Mas...

The son of an enslaved blacksmith learns that his father is using the rhythm of his hammering to communicate with travelers on the Underground Rail...

In 1854, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings, an African American schoolteacher, fought back when she was unjustly denied entry to a New York City streetca...

#1 New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author of The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander, pens a powerful picture book that tells the story of Ame...

Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? Perfect for fans of the I Survived series, the second installm...

A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction Ellen always knew the broom resting above the hearth was special...