Black History 2008 - Juvenile & YA Fiction

	Celebrate Black History Month with these recommended titles by, for and about African Americans. All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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	Slam Dunk! Sharon Robinson (Scholastic, c2007) Shelf Number: J FICTION/ROB Entering a new school in Harlem, Elijah "Jumper" Breeze, while helping their coach get the school gym fixed so that there can be a basketball team and running for student council, must deal with the fact that his old rival, Marcus, is transferring to his school.
	A Song for Harlem Pat McKissack (Viking, c2007) Shelf Number: J FICTION/MCK Lilly Belle travels far from her hometown of Smyrna, Tennessee to 1920s Harlem after she is invited to take part in a summer program for gifted young writers--learning a great deal about jazz music, "the capital of Black America," and herself in the process.
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	Stolen Man: the Story of the Amistad Rebellion Barry Louis Polisar (Rainbow Morning Musi/Independent Pub. Group, c2006) Shelf Number: J FICTION/POL Tells the story of the 1839 Amistad slave ship rebellion from the perspective of the revolt's leader, Sengbe Pieh, named Cinque by his captors.
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	The Story of Jonas Maurine F. Dahlberg (Farrar, c2007) Shelf Number: J FICTION/DAH In the mid-1800s, a slave boy dreams of escaping to freedom while on a journey from Missouri to the gold fields of Kansas Territory with his master's n'er-do-well son.
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	A Sweet-sounding Place: a Civil War Story of the Black 54th Regiment Nancy Johnson (Down East Books, c2007) Shelf Number: J FICTION/JOH Moses is found as an infant next to his dying mother, an escaped slave, and is brought to Boston and raised with a baker's family. He grows to be a willful teenager, and after his uncle enlists in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment--the first and most famous black Civil War regiment--Moses is keen on following him to war, hoping to serve his country and find out about his mother.
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	What They Found: Love on 145th Street Walter Dean Myers (Wendy Lamb Books / Random House, c2007) Shelf Number: FICTION/MYE YOUNG ADULT Myers returns to the world of 145th Street to show how love can be found, and thrives, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion.
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