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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
4.10 average rating, · 59.7k ratings
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Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper
4.36 average rating, · 17.4k ratings
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Tears of a Tiger
Sharon M. Draper
4.17 average rating, · 16.6k ratings
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Forged by Fire
Sharon M. Draper
4.36 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Anne Moody
4.13 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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Sonny's Blues
James Baldwin
4.33 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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The Bully
Paul Langan
4.31 average rating, · 6.1k ratings
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A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines
4.09 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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Darkness Before Dawn
Sharon M. Draper
4.30 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Counting Descent
Clint Smith
4.50 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Native Guard: Poems
Natasha Trethewey
4.21 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Blood Is Thicker
Paul Langan
4.39 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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November Blues
Sharon M. Draper
4.32 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Lost and Found
Anne E. Schraff
4.19 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Secrets in the Shadows
Anne E. Schraff
4.37 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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The Battle of Jericho
Sharon M. Draper
4.14 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
LeAlan Jones
4.31 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Walter Johnson
4.12 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Carlotta Walls LaNier
4.12 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Blood Dazzler
Patricia Smith
4.41 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Not Quite Snow White
Ashley Franklin
4.44 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Pretty Ugly
Karyn Langhorne Folan
4.42 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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The King of Kindergarten
Derrick Barnes
4.20 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Sweat
Zora Neale Hurston
4.02 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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