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| Patricia McCormick | author | Cecil Castellucci | author |
| Billy Merrell | author | Jacqueline Woodson | author |
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| Native Son | by Richard Wright | ||
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | by Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| The Bluest Eye | by Toni Morrison | ||
| Manchild in the Promised Land | by Claude Brown | ||
| Down These Mean Streets | by Piri Thomas | ||
| Makes Me Wanna Holler | by Nathan McCall | ||
| Upstate | by Kalisha Buchanon | ||
| The First Part Last | by Angela Johnson | ||
| The Color Purple | by Alice Walker | ||
| True Believer | by Virginia Euwer Wolff | ||
| Life is Funny | by E. R. Frank | ||
| Born Confused | by Tanuja Desai Hidier | ||
| Monster | by Walter Dean Myers | ||
| Money Hungry | by Sharon G. Flake | ||
| Bronx Masquerade | by Nikki Grimes | ||
| Saint Iggy | by K.L. Going | ||
| Inexcusable | by Chris Lynch | ||
| Imani All Mine | by Connie Rose Porter | ||
| Shine, Coconut Moon | by Neesha Meminger | ||