Book List for Young Warriors
Birth to 12 years old:
All books by Akua Agusi:
“The Successes of Marcus Garvey” by Akua Agusi
“Queen Nzingha (The Peoples Queen)” by Akua Agusi
All books by Angela Freeman:
"Bomani's Stand" by Angela Freeman
“Sankofa SuperHerus: Volume 1” by Angela Freeman
“Insurrection!: An Atrocity for An Atrocity” by Angela Freeman
“Koi and The Kola Nuts” by Verna Aardema
“Afro-Bets First Book About Africa” by Veronica Ellis
“The Story of Africa and Her Flags to Color” by Michael Faul
“Jambo Means Hello” by Muriel Feelings
“Moja Means One” by Muriel Feelings
“A Story, A Story” by Gale E. Haley
“Africa is Not a Country, It’s a Continent” by Arthur Lewin
“Habari Gani? What’s the News?” by Sundaira Morninghouse
“Ashanti to Zulu” by Margaret Musgrove
“Lest We Forget” by Velma Thomas
“Encounter” by Jane Yolen
“You Can Do It!” by Tony Dungy
“Please, Baby, Please” by Spike Lee
“Nappy Hair” by Carolivia Herron
“Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters” by John Steptoe
“Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales” by Virginia Hamilton
“Amazing Grace” by Mary Hoffman
“Chocolate Me!” by Taye Diggs
“Dancing in the Wings” by Debbie Allen
“Precious and the Boo Hag” by Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss
“My Brother Charlie” by Holly Robinson Peete
“The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales” by Virginia Hamilton
“Something Beautiful” by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
"Through My Eyes" by Ruby Bridges
"Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad" by Ellen Levine
"Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom" (Caldecott Honor Book) by Carole Boston Weatherford
"I Love My Hair!" by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
"Big Hair, Don't Care" by Crystal Swain-Bates
"I'm a Pretty Little Black Girl!" (I'm a Girl! Collection) by Betty K. Bynum
"In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers" by Javaka Steptoe
"Jamaica's Find" (Reading Rainbow) by Juanita Havill
"Tar Beach" by Faith Ringgold
"Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by Doreen Rappaport
"Who Was Harriet Tubman?" by Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Who Was Louis Armstrong?” by Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Who Was King Tut?” by Roberta Edwards
"Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X" by Ilyasah Shabazz
"What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"A Man Called Garvey: The Life and Times of the Great Leader Marcus Garvey" by Paloma Mohamed
"STAT: Standing Tall and Talented #1: Home Court" by Amar'e Stoudemire
Young Warriors 12 and Up:
“Monster” by Walter Dean Myers
“Slam” by Walter Dean Myers
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
Lessons of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey
Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Black Economics by Jawanzaa Kunjufu
Know Thy Self by Naim Akbar
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Naim Akbar
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
From the Browder Files by Anthony Browder
The Black Holocaust for Beginners by S.E Anderson
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) by Laurie Halse Anderson
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Elizabeth Yates
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
From Niggas to Gods, Part One by Akil
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
A Lesson Before Dying and A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
Harriet Tubman by Ann Petry
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams
Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
“Baby Says” by John Steptoe
“Donavan’s Double Trouble” by Monalisa DeGross
“I Get So Hungry” by Bebe Moore Campbell
“Lola at the Library” by Anna McQuinn