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YA/Teen African & African American Protagonists

Did you know that African and African American characters are represented in only 7.6% of children's literature*? This list is curated by SRPL staff and will grow as we continue to pressure the publishing industry to give us books that are written by people of color, and that provide authentic representations of people of color. *http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp

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  • Book, 2021New York : Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2021 — YA Morris
  • Book, 2020New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020 — Fiction Tamani, L
  • Book, 2021New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021 — Fiction Bryant, E
  • Book, 2020New York : Bloomsbury YA, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2020 — Teen Fiction Bayron
  • Book, 2020New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — YA Fiction Brown
  • Book, 2020New York : Delacorte Press, 2020 — YA Fiction Forna, N
  • Book, 2019New York : Razorbill, 2019 — Teen Fiction Onyebuchi
  • Book, 2020New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020 — YA Fiction Reynolds, J
  • Book, 2018New York : Crown, c2018 — TEEN Fiction Stone
  • Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2021 — TEEN Fiction Richardson
  • Book, 2020Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2020 — Teen Fiction Colbert
  • Book, 2018New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — Teen Fiction Jackson
  • Book, 2020New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YA Fiction Philippe
  • Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2018] — Teen Fiction Coles
  • Graphic Novel, 2017New York : Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. [2017] — Teen Graphic Novel Medina
  • Book, 2014New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014] — Mystery Giles, L