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.
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.
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.
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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