The following are a selection of books dealing with the African-American experience for older children and young adults.

Sounder by William Armstrong - Harper & Row, 1969
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis - Delacorte Press, 1999
The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake - Jump at the Sun, 1998
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly by Joyce Hansen - Scholastic, 1997
Witness by Karen Hesse - Scholastic Press, 2001
Mama, I Want to Sing by Vy Higgensen - Scholastic, 1992
Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollinsPublishers - 1999
Letters from a Slave Girl by Mary Lyons - Scribner, 1992
Where You Belong by Mary Ann McGuigan - Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997
Color Me Dark by Patricia McKissack - Scholastic, 2000
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner by Walter Dean Myers - HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997
Hold Fast to Dreams by Andrea Davis Pinkney - Morrow Junior Books - 1995
Send One Angel Down by Virginia Schwartz - Holiday House, 2000
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor - Dial Press, 1996