Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Urban Fiction
Bronx Masquerade
Grimes, Nikki.
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've...
A Girl Named Mister
Grimes, Nikki.
A pregnant teenager finds support and forgiveness from God through a book of poetry presented from t...
The First Part Last
Johnson, Angela,
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his ad...
Standing Against the Wind
Jones, Traci L.
As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious board...
Tyrell
Booth, Coe.
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and hi...
November Blues
Draper, Sharon M.
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and ...
Bang!
Flake, Sharon.
A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destruc...
The Beast
Myers, Walter Dean,
A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give sixt...
The Hoopster
Sitomer, Alan Lawrence.
Andre Anderson has a bright future as a basketball star until he is viciously attacked in a hate cri...
True Believer
Wolff, Virginia Euwer.
For use in schools and libraries only. In this gorgeously rich and eloquent sequel to Make Lemonade,...
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Shakur, Tupac,
His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- ...
The Color of Water
McBride, James,
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnic...
Mare's War
Davis, Tanita S.
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take ...
A la Carte
Davis, Tanita S.
Lainey, a high school senior and aspiring celebrity chef, is forced to question her priorities after...
Chains
Anderson, Laurie Halse.
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels durin...
Good Fortune
Carter, Noni.
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come t...
Kendra
Booth, Coe.
High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, l...
The Rock and the River
Magoon, Kekla.
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonv...
After Tupac & D Foster
Woodson, Jacqueline.
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Sha...