Middle Grade Books Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1970s

  1. Sidewalk Story by Sharon Bell Mathis
  2. Growin’ by Nikki Grimes
  3. Song of the Trees (Logans, #3) by Mildred D. Taylor
  4. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4) by Mildred D. Taylor
  5. M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
  6. The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
  7. Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
  8. Return to South Town by Lorenz B. Graham
  9. Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers