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Black History Month for Teens - 2022

SurreyLibraries_Teens - February is Black History Month, a time to celebrate and remember all the ways that Black Canadians have contributed to Canada’s history and culture. Throughout February, we learn about African cultures and honour the many achievements and contributions of Black Canadians who, throughout history, have done so much to make Canada the culturally diverse, compassionate and prosperous nation it is today. Mark Black History Month with these recommended reads for teens.

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  • Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this…
    Book, 2022New York : Atheneum, [2022] — REYNOLD
  • Revolution in Our Time

    the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

    Magoon, Kekla
    With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers--as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community. Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 2021Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press , 2021. — 323.1196073 MAG 2021
  • Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself. Also available as an eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.
    Book, 2021New York : Crown, [2021] — BROWNE
  • No one can be at peace until he has his freedom. In Charlestown Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares, he drifts through days unsure of his future. Slowly, he befriends other prisoners and writes to his…
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021. — SHABAZZ
  • Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."... Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town…
    Book, 2021New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021. — PINK
  • Change is coming to Pinder Street after a hotel developer purchases their community's beloved beach. When Eve's dad is diagnosed with cancer, she wants nothing more than to trade her worries for some red lipstick and a carefree night. Faith only has…
    Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2020] — MATHER
  • In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five,…
    Book, 2020New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020. — 306.7662092 JOH 2020
  • Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system. Also available as an eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.
    Book, 2020New York : Crown, [2020] — STONE
  • Every week Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time: her dad has only 267 days left. Then the police arrive in the…
    Book, 2020New York : Random House, [2020] — JOHNSON
  • Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — PHILIPP
  • Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nell who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her…
    Unknown, 2020New York : Bloomsbury, [2020] — BOLDEN
  • From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — ZOBOI
  • Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she's finally available. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Del's right behind her. Though he quickly realizes he's inadvertently…
    Book, 2020New York : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — GILES
  • Black Girl Unlimited

    the Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard

    Brown, Echo,
    From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more. Also available as an eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.
    Unknown, 2020New York : Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — BROWN
  • This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends.…
    Book, 2020Minnneapolis, MN : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020. — 305.8 JEW 2020
  • There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Atheneum, [2020] — REYNOLD
  • The African diaspora blends with Arthurian legend in Deonn's dynamic YA fantasy debut, reminiscent of City of Bones. On her first two nights at the University of North Carolina's Early College program, 16-year-old Bree Matthews, who is Black,…
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. — DEONN
  • The epic debut YA fantasy from an incredible new talent; perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi and Sabaa Tahir Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you've sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? Tarisai has always longed for the…
    Book, 2020New York : Amulet Books, 2020. — IFUEKO
  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You : a Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning

    Reynolds, Jason
    The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's…
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — 305.800973 REY 2020
  • Lifting as We Climb

    Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

    Dionne, Evette
    When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches written about or pictured are generally white. Dionne shows that the real story isn't…
    Book, 2020New York : Viking, 2020. — 324.6230973 DIO 2020