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BOOKMOBILE Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Jacqueline Woodson 201 E. Market St. Young Adult Services After Tupac & D Foster Charlottesville, VA 22902 jmrl.org/wiki Three friends connect over a love of Tupac (434) 979-7151 ext. 501 grow.learn.connect. in 1996. 2/12 Laurie Halse Anderson Copper Sun Chains Two teens, a slave and an indentured Kekla Magoon Forge servant, escape a Carolina plantation to Rock and the River Two African American teens's loyalty is sanctuary in Florida. In 1968,14 year old Sam is influenced by tested during the Revolutionary War. Fire from the Rock his father's nonviolence and his brother’s Sylvia Patterson is selected to integrate ties to the Black Panthers. M.T. Anderson Little Rock’s Central High in 1957. Volume 1: The Pox Party Shelia P. Moses Volume 2: The Kingdom on the Waves Niki Grimes The Baptism Octavian, a young African American, is Jazmin's Notebook Twelve-year-old Leon’s 20th century town brought up as part of a science experiment Teenager Jazmin records her life in 1960s is still affected by its history of slavery. during the American Revolution. Harlem in her diary and poems. The Legend of Buddy Bush The Return of Buddy Bush Katherine Ayres Traci L. Jones Pattie Mae, 12 years old in 1947, learns North by Night : a Story of the Underground Finding My Place about her family’s history in North Carolina Railroad Tiphanie learns about prejudice as the only and Harlem. Stealing South : a Story of the Underground African American in her Denver high school Railroad in 1975. Walter Mosley Teens help slaves escape along the 47 Underground Railroad. Kathryn Lasky The 14 year-old slave named 47 learns True North about freedom from Tall John in 1832. Elisa Carbone Lucy, 14, is influenced by her abolitionist Stealing Freedom grandfather in helping a fugitive slave girl. Walter Dean Myers Twelve year old Ann Maria escapes on the Fallen Angels Underground Railroad after her family is Julius Lester Richie Perry serves in Vietnam after high sold. Day of Tears school. Emma has raised the Butler girls, but now The Glory Field Chris Crowe their father may sell Emma. A family’s 241 year history revolves Mississippi Trial, 1955 Guardian around land in South Carolina they call the A 16 year old and his grandfather struggle A white man and his son witness the Glory Field. over the murder of a 14 year old African lynching of an innocent black man in 1946. Harlem Summer American from Chicago. This Strange New Feeling Mark, 16, plays jazz in 1920s Harlem and Love stories from the time of slavery. gets involved with a gangster. Christopher Paul Curtis Riot The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 Mary Lyons Claire, half African American and half The Watsons, an African American family Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War Scrapbook of black, is caught in the 1863 NYC draft from Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed Two Union Spies riots. after their visit to Alabama in the summer of Letters from a Slave Boy : the Story of 1963. Joseph Jacobs Greg Neri Letters from a Slave Girl : the Story of Yummy : the Last Days of a Southside Sharon Draper Harriet Jacobs Shorty