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The first three books may seem too "picture book-y" but they were created with middle school students in mind...

1) Aida, Leontyne

2) Shaka, D. Stanley

3) Sundiata, D. Wisnieski [winner of the African Studies Association (ASA) Children's

Book Award, 1993]

4) Chain of Fire, B. Naidoo [a sequel to the award-winning Journey to Jo'burg]

5) African Folktales, R. Abrahams

6) Tales of an Ashanti Father, P. Appiah

7) Waiting for Rain, S. Gordon

8) Apartheid: Calibrations of Color, (publisher: Icarus/Rosen Group) short stories, plays, photos, and personal essay by South Africans. [received Honor Book Award from the ASA Children's Book Committee, 1992]

9) Bury My Bones But Keep My Words: African Tales for Retelling, T. Fairman

10) The African Mask, J. Rupert [received Honor Book Award from the ASA Children's Book Committee, 1995]

11) The Ear, The Eye and The Arm, N. Farmer

12) The Captive, J. Hansen [winner of the ASA Children's Book Award, 1995]

13) Somwhow Tenderness Survives, e.d., H. Rockman

14) Moonlight Bride, B. Emecheta

15) Secret Lives, Ngugi wa Th'iongo (short stories); [Ngugi is his surname] created for a general / adult audience, but several of the stories are appropriate for middle school.

16) Red Dust, Green Leaves, J. Gray.

17) Story for a Black Night, C. Bess

18) The Return, S. Levitin

19) The Dark Child [sometimes published as Black Child], C. Laye