African-American Literature
 
New or Award-winning
A La Carte / Tanita S. Davis
After Tupac and D Foster / Jacqueline Woodson
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story / Walter Dean Myers
Becoming Billie Holiday / Carole Boston Weatherford
Beneath a Meth Moon (Jacqueline Woodson)
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had / Kristin Levine
Caleb's Wars / David L. Dudley
Bronx Masquarde / Nikki Grimes
Chains / Laurie Halse Anderson
Copper Sun / Sharon M. Draper
Dope Sick / Walter Dean Myers.
Flygirl / Sherri L. Smith
Freedom Stone / Jeffrey Kluger
A Friendship for Today / Patricia C. McKissack
Game / Walter Dean Myers
Guardian / Julius Lester
Heaven / Angela Johnson
Hot Girl / Dream Jordan
Just Another Hero / Sharon M. Draper
The Kayla Chronicles: A Novel / Sherri Winston
Keeping The Night Watch / Hope Anita Smith
Kendra / Coe Booth
The Kingdom On The Waves: Octavius Nothing / M.T. Anderson
Miracle's Boys / Jacqueline Woodson
Money Hungry / Sharon G. Flake
Ninth Ward / Jewell Parker Rhodes
No Crystal Stair / Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
No Laughter Here / Rita Williams-Garcia
Peace, Locomotion / Jacqueline Woodson
Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story / Tonya Hegamin And Marilyn Nelson
Response / By Paul Volponi
Riot / Walter Dean Myers
The Rock And The River / Kekla Magoon
Ruby's Imagine / Kim Antieau
Ship of Souls / Zetta Elliott
The Skin I'm In / Sharon Flake
Sunrise Over Fallujah / Walter Dean Myers
A Thousand Never Evers / Shana Burg
We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball / Kadir Nelson

Girls
Begging for Change (Sharon Flake)
Broken China (Lori Aurelia Williams)
Hang 1,000 Trees with Ribbons (Ann Rinaldi)
Heaven (Angela Johnson)
Hush (Jacqueline Woodson)
If You Come Softly (Jacqueline Woodson)
Leaving Gee's Bend (Irene Latham)
Like Sisters on the Homefront (Rita Williams-Garcia)
Make Lemonade (Virginia Euwer Wolff)
My Name is not Angelica (Scott O'Dell)
Plain City (Virginia Hamilton)
Sarny (Gary Paulsen)
Shayla's Double Brown Baby Blues (Lori Aurelia Williams)
Spellbound (Janet MacDonald)
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Virginia Hamilton)
When Kambia Elaine flew in from Neptune (Lori Aurelia Williams)

Guys
Behind You (Jacqueline Woodson)
Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
The Dream Bearer (Walter Dean Myers)
Every Time a Rainbow Dies (Rita Williams-Garcia)
Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers)
Finding Forrester (James Whitfield Ellison)
Life is Funny (E. R. Frank)
M. C. Higgins the Great (Virginia Hamilton)
Monster (Walter Dean Myers)
Nightjohn (Gary Paulsen)
The pick-up game: a full day of full court / editors Marc Aronson & Charles R. Smith Jr.
Rite of Passage (Richard Wright)
Send One Angel Down (Virginia Frances Schwartz)
Slam (Walter Dean Meyers)
Somewhere in the Darkness (Walter Dean Myers)
The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963 (Christopher Paul Curtis)