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Myers, Walter Dean. Street Love. 2007. (YA Fiction Myers.W 2007)
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
Mowry, Jess. Babylon Boyz. 1997. (YA Fiction Mowry.J)
Inner-city teenagers find a suitcase full of cocaine and must decide whether to sell it and take the opportunities the money would provide or to destroy it to keep the drug from poisoning their community.
Parra, Kelly. Graffiti Girl. 2007. (YA Fiction Parra.K)
A high school student and artist is tempted by the seductive world of graffiti art. Kelly’s book brilliantly captures her search for her true identity as she struggles to follow her dream.
Sapphire. Push : A Novel. 1996. (YA Fiction Sapphir 1997)
A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African a American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant for the second time by her father. (The movie, "Precious," is based on this book)
Schraff, Anne E. A Matter Of Trust. 2007. (YA Fiction Bluford)
Darcy Wills and Brisana Meeks were friends in grade school, but all that changed at Bluford High when Darcy started hanging with “the zeros”—a group of students Brisana despises. Now the former friends are bitter rivals.
Schraff, Anne E. Someone To Love Me. 2007. (YA Fiction Bluford)
At first, Bobby Wallace was everything Cindy Gibson hoped for. He was friendly, seemingly mature, and handsome--the perfect escape from her problems in school and even bigger troubles at home. But then, Bobby starts behaving strangely, and Cindy gets scared.
Schmidt, C. A. Useful Fools. 2007. (YA Fiction Schmi.C)
Alonso, a dirt-poor teenager living in Peru, helps out at the public health clinic his mother, Magdalena, opened, so that he can see Rosa, the beautiful and wealthy daughter of the clinics doctor. Alonso and Rosa are both shattered when Magdalena is assassinated by a revolutionary terrorist organization.
Serros, Michele M.. Honey Blonde Chica : A Novel. 2006. (YA Fiction Serro.M)
This sexy new novel for chicas everywhere tells the story of high schooler Evie Gomez who's not sure if she wants to be a fun-loving, high-heeled, hair-streaked Sango or a laid-back surfer chick Flojo.
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- Simone, Ni-Ni. If I Was Your Girl. 2008. (YA Fiction Simon.N)
- Smokin' hot Toi McKnight never had no trouble catching boys. With a body like Beyonce she's everywhere you want to be - in the arms of that guy you want, at the hippest parties, walking out of the finest fashion stores, full bags dangling on her arms. But, all that comes crashing to an end when she finds out she's pregnant. Now it's strollers and diapers all the way. Who'd want her now? Toi is alone and her old life is gone, 'cuz she's got to be good to her child. Then Toi meets Harlem and it turns out he sees her for who she is, not just some deadbeat teen mom. Soon she learns the struggles of being a good mom while trying to keep love alive. Can she make it work? Can she hold on to Harlem? Or should she push him away and avoid the hurt she knows is probably coming?
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- Sitomer, Alan Lawrence. Homeboyz. 2007. (YA Fiction Sitom.A)
- This story follows an African-American teenager through four years at her inner-city high school. Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.
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- Stork, Francisco X. Behind The Eyes. 2006. (YA Fiction Stork.F)
- Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.
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- Souljah, Sister. The Coldest Winter Ever : A Novel. 2006. (YA Fiction Souljah 2006)
- After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter, Winter, takes over his empire. Souljah looks at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money.
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- Williams-Garcia, Rita. Jumped. 2009. (YA Fiction Willi.R)
- The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.
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