Race Relations / Civil Rights 

Armistead, John- The Return of Gabriel   
(218 pages) In the summer of 1964, a thirteen-year-old white boy whose best friend is black is caught in the middle when civil rights workers and Ku Klux Klan members clash in a small town near Tupelo, Mississippi.  (N)

Cooney, Caroline B. – Burning Up   
(230 pages)  Macey believes her privileged Connecticut community is perfect—until evidence of a race crime committed in the 1950’s comes to light  forcing residents to face their culpability, guilt, prejudices and apathy.  (K)

Crowe, Chris – Mississippi Trial, 1955  
(231 pages) In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago.  (N)

Les Becquets, Diane – The Stones of Mourning Creek   
(306 pages) In Alabama in the 1960s, fourteen-year-old Francie develops a controversial and dangerous friendship with a colored girl her own age.  (N)

McDonald, Joyce – Devil on My Heels   
(263 pages) In 1957 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her.  (N)

Moses, Sheila P. – The Legend of Buddy Bush   
(216 pages) In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrest for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.  (N)

Nelson, Marilyn – A Wreath for Emmett Till   
(unpaged) A poetic tribute to Emmett Till, the young African-American man whose death by lynching in 1955 ignited the Civil Rights movement.  (K)

Nolan, Han – A Summer of Kings   
(334 pages) In 1963, Esther, a fourteen-year-old white girl, begins a romance with eighteen-year-old, King-Roy Johnson, a black man accused of murder in Alabama.  (K)

Vaught, Susan – Stormwitch  
(200 pages) In Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian warrior tactics, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar, now coming ashore in the form of Hurricane Camille.  (N)

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