Culturally Relevant Literature
Culturally Relevant Literature
|
Author |
Title |
Genre |
Lexile |
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Bolden, Tanya |
Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America |
NF |
1130 |
|
Coleman, Robin |
Say It Loud!: African-American audiences, Media, and identity |
NF Essays |
|
|
Crow, Chris |
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmitt Till Case Mississippi Trial, 1955 |
NF F |
1210 870 |
|
Curtis, Christopher Paul |
Bud, Not Buddy The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 * Any title by this author |
F F |
1000 950 |
|
Dove, Rita |
On the Bus with Rosa Parks * Any title by this author |
Poetry |
1030 |
|
Draper, Sharon |
Battle of Jericho Copper Sun Darkness Before Dawn Double Dutch Forged by Fire Romiette and Julio Tears of a Tiger We Beat the Streets Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs (Series) |
F F F F F F NF NF F |
700 820 670 760 780 610 700 720-900 |
|
Feelings, Tom |
The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo |
NF |
NP |
|
Fisher, Antwoine |
Finding Fish |
NF |
1080 |
|
Flake, Sharon G. |
Begging for Change Bang Money Hungry The Skin I’m In Who Am I Without Him? |
F F F F F |
1060 590 650 670 650 |
|
Giovanni, Nikki |
Rosa *Any title by this author |
NF |
900 |
|
Grimes, Nikki |
The Bronx Masquerade Dark Sons |
F |
670 |
|
Hamilton, Virginia Hamilton, Virginia |
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Bluish: A Novel Cousins The House of Dies Drear Many Thousand Gone M.C. Higgins the Great The Mystery of Drear House The People Could Fly The Planet of Junior Brown Second Cousins Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush W.E.B. Dubois A White Romance *Any title by this author |
NF F F F NF F F F F F F Bio F |
860 460 580 670 990 620 540 660 730 460 550 490 |
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Johnson, Angela |
First Part Last Girls Speak Out: Finding Your True Self I Dream of Trains * Any title by this author |
F F NF |
790 790 1040 |
|
Lester, Julius |
Day of Tears |
HF |
NP |
|
Meyers, Walter Dean |
Autobiography of My Dead Brother Bad Boy Fallen Angels Monster Handbook for Boys Scorpion Somewhere in the Darkness Shooter Slam Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom The Greatest: Muhammad Ali |
F NF F F F F NF Bio |
830 970 650 670 740 610 640 690 750 1050 |
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Moses, Sheila |
I, Dred Scott The Legend of Buddy Bush Return of Buddy Bush |
NF NF NF |
760 780 |
|
Nelson, Marilyn |
A Wreath for Emmett Till |
Poetry |
NP |
|
Pinkney, Andrea |
Bill Pickett: Rodeo Ridin’ Cowboy |
NF |
AD1000 |
|
Ryan, Pam Munoz |
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson the voice of the Century |
NF |
780 |
|
Taylor, Mildred |
The Land The Friendship The Gold Cadillac Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Let the Circle be Unbroken Mississippi Bridge The Road to Memphis Song of the Trees The Well: David’s Story * Any title by this author |
F F F F F F F F F |
750 650 920 850 810 670 710 760 |
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Tillage, Leon |
Leon’s Story |
NF |
970 |
|
Weatherford, Carole Boston |
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People |
Poetry |
NP |
|
Woodson, Jacqueline |
If You Come Softly Miracle’s Boys Locomotion The Other Side * Any title by this author |
F F Poetry F |
570 660 NP AD300 |





