Books for ages 9 -12.

Addy Studies Freedom by Connie Rose Porter

Addy’s Summer Place (The American Girls Collection) by Connie Porter

The African-American Child’s Heritage Cookbook by Vanessa Roberts Parham

Africans In America, 1619-1865 by Kay Melchisedech Olson

Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Nelson

Bird by Angela Johnson

Black Angels by Rita Murphy

Black Misery by Langston Hughes

Black Stars of the Civil Rights Movement by Jim Haskins

Dark Thirty by Virginia Hamilton

Days of Jubilee by Pat McKissack

Double Dutch by Sharon Draper

Dream Bearer by Walter Dean Myers

Elizabeth’s Song by Michael Wenberg

Especially Heroes by Virginia L. Kroll

Freedom Riddle by Angela Shelf Medearis

Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad by Joyce Hansen

Great African-American Lawyers: Raising the Bar of Freedom by Carol Boston Weatherford

Handbook for Boys by Walter Dean Myers

Here We Go Round by Alice McGill

How They Got over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea by Eloise Greenfield

In Their Own Words: Sojourner Truth by Peter Roop

Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop by Mary Quattlebaum

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Little Divas by Philana Boles

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

Mary McLeod Bethune: Educator and Activist (African-American Biographies) by Andrea Broadwater

Massachusetts 54th, The: African American Soldiers of the Union by Gina Deangelis

MC Higgans, The Great by Virginia Hamilton

Miami Sees It Through (Road to Reading. Mile 5) by Pat McKissack

One More Valley, One More Hill: The Story of Aunt Clara Brown by Linda Lowery

Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton

Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms (Picture Puffins) by Charles R. Smith, Jr.

Satch and Me by Dan Gutman

Scooter and the Galactic Starship by Douglas R. Robinson

Secret Holes by Pansie Hart Floyd

Story of the Underground Railroad by Peter F. Copeland

The Times They Used To Be by Lucille Clifton

Venus and Serena: Serving From The Hip by Williams Sisters

When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street by Angela Johnson

Yolanda’s Genius by Carol Fenner

You Don’t Know Me That Way by Yasmin Hunt

Zeely by Virginia Hamilton