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4 YA Historical Fiction to Kick Off Black History Month

Writer's picture: Christina Vortia, MSLISChristina Vortia, MSLIS

  1. Ida, In Love and In Trouble by Veronica Chambers



Title: Ida, in Love and in Trouble

Author: Veronica Chambers

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

ISBN: 978-0316500166


This novel gives a fun and detailed look at the teenage years of Ida B. Wells. You'll get to read some of her actual love letters and dive into what life was like for the Black middle class around the turn of the century.


 

  1. Title: Let Me Hear a Rhyme

    Author: Tiffany D. Jackson

    Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

    ISBN: 978-0062840332


Imagine it's 1998, a prime time for Hip Hop, and you've got three teens doing their best to keep their late friend's memory alive by pretending he's still a living rapper.


 


  1. Title: The Color of a Lie

    Author: Kim Johnson

    Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

    ISBN: 978-0593118801


This evocative story of a teen and his family passing for white in 1955 Levittown, PA is a pulsating read that will have you in your feelings from cover to cover.


 


  1. Title: For Lamb

    Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome

    Publisher: Holiday House

    ISBN: 978-0823450152


Set in the late 1930s in Jim Crow era Mississippi, For Lamb is the unforgettable story of a striving Black family struggling under the weight of racist and homophobic oppression.


 
 
 
 

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