📖 Celebrate Black History Month: read novels by black authors or check out works dedicated to black art, culture, and history! 📖
The following books (and more) are now on display in our YA area, available for check-out:
Fiction
1. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Witch
transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it
seems. Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, twelve-year old
Sunny is understandably a little lost. She is albino and thus,
incredibly sensitive to the sun. All Sunny wants to do is be able to
play football and get through another day of school without being
bullied. But once she befriends Orlu and Chichi, Sunny is plunged in to
the world of the Leopard People, where your worst defect becomes your
greatest asset. Together, Sunny, Orlu, Chichi and Sasha form the
youngest ever Oha Coven. Their mission is to track down Black Hat
Otokoto, the man responsible for kidnapping and maiming children. Will
Sunny be able to overcome the killer with powers stronger than her own,
or will the future she saw in the flames become reality?2. Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn’t really “home”—no place where you fear for your life can be considered a home. Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home. There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted—and their unborn child—to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary must find the voice to fight her past. And her fate lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But who really knows the real Mary?
3. A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
The first time the
Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to
battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland
with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a
curfew.Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice's handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into Wonderland than she’s ever gone before. And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head . . . literally.
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