2019 Middle Grade Books By Black Americans

  1. The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away by Ronald L. Smith
  2. A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
  3. For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington
  4. The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods
  5. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
  6. Just South of Home by Karen Strong
  7. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer (A Legendary Alston Boys Adventure, #1) by Lamar Giles
  8. The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
  9. Jake the Fake Goes for Laughs (Jake the Fake, #2) by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach
  10. Trace by Pat Cummings
  11. Jada Sly, Artist & Spy by Sherri Winston
  12. Topside by J.N. Monk
  13. Charlotte Spies for Justice: A Civil War Survival Story by Nikki Shannon Smith
  14. Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story by Nikki Shannon Smith