SUBJECTS TITLES

• Aaliyah. Aaliyah: More Than a Woman. Farley, Christopher. New York: Pocket Books, 2001. Aaliyah Dana Haughton, a beautiful, acclaimed star in the music industry who successfully made the transition to actress, was killed tragically in an airplane accident. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC FAR
• Ali. Reach!: Finding Strength, Spirit, and Personal Power. Ali, Laila. New York: Hyperion, 2002. Laila Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali and Veronica Porche, tells of her life and her professional boxing career. BIO ALI
• Ali. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali. Myers, Walter Dean. New York: Scholastic Press, 2001. An introduction to Ali's life from his childhood to the present day, focusing on his career and the controversies that surrounded him. YA PB NFC MYE/796.83
• Beals. Warriors Don’t Cry. A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High. Beals, Melba. New York, 1995. After forty years, Beals looks back on how she and eight other Black students integrated segregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC BEA/370.19342 BEA
• Beyonce. Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of Destiny’s Child. Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams. New York: Regan Books, 2002. The singers share the struggles they endured while growing up under the media’s microscope.   Y 780.92 DESTINY’S CHILD BEY
• Carson. Gifted Hands. Carson, Ben. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990. Carson, a frustrated inner-city kid with faith in God, developed and became the director of the pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Maryland. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC CAR/BIO CARSON
• Davis. The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream. Davis, Sampson, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt. New York: Riverhead Books, 2002. Growing up in broken homes in a crime-ridden area of Newark, N.J., these three authors escaped by making a promise among themselves to become doctors. 610.922 DAV/ YOUNG ADULT PB NFC DAV
• Fisher. Finding Fish: A Memoir. Fisher, Antwone Quenton. New York: Morrow, 2001 Fisher grew up and out of his abusive and dark childhood in Cleveland’s foster care to become a successful Hollywood screenwriter and producer. BIO FISHER
• Malcolm X. By Any Means Necessary – Myers, Walter Dean. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1993. From thievery to honesty, from racial separatist to the search for brotherhood, from atheism to Black Muslim to Islam - the engrossing story of Malcolm X. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC MYE
• Moody. Coming of Age in Mississippi - Moody, Anne. New York: Dell, 1976. An eloquent autobiography of one woman’s life in the South before and during the Civil Rights movement. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC MOO
• Myers. Bad Boy: A Memoir - Myers, Walter Dean. New York: Harper Tempest, 2001. Myers’ childhood comes alive in this memoir of a boy in 1940s and 1950s Harlem who becomes a dedicated reader and writer. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC MYE
• Tupac. Tupac Amaru Shakur, 1971-1996 - The Editors of Vibe. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998. A glimpse of the turbulent life and career of one of music’s most controversial and influential artists. YA 780.92 SHAKUR TUP
• Tubman. Harriet Tubman – Janney, Rebecca. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1999. Her profound faith in God and daring courage propel this former slave through the darkest of times to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC JAN
• Woods. Tiger Woods: An American Master – Edwards, Nicholas. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2001. Tiger Woods’ hard work, talent and love for the game have transformed the world of golf. YOUNG ADULT PB NFC E
• Young. On Our Way to Beautiful: A Family Memoir – Young, Yolanda. New York: Villard, 2002. Growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Young humorously and lovingly chronicles her adventures with her family, friends, school, and church. BIO YOUNG

COLLECTED BIOGRAPHIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS

• 700.899 M Marks, Carole. Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance. Crown Publishing. 1999. Zora Neale Hurston, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes are among the gifted writers, composers and entertainers featured in this lavishly illustrated book.
• 920.009 A Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Black Profiles in Courage. William Morrow/Avon, 1996. Draw inspiration from heroic African Americans who changed the course of American history.
• 920.073 B Brodie, James Michael. Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators. W. Morrow/Quill, 1963. From the traffic signal to the blood bank, Black inventors and innovators revolutionized life in America.
• 920.7 A Alexander, Amy. Fifty Black Women Who Changed America. Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp., 1999. Educators, writers, singers, athletes, entrepreneurs and activists, these women made a difference in our world.
• 920.71089 BLA Black Men in Their Own Words. Crown, 2002. Notable contemporary men, including Damon Wayans, Tom Joyner, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and Russell Simmons speak out on their lives in this photo-filled book.
• 920.72 B Bolden, Tonya. And Not Afraid to Dare. Scholastic, 1998. These courageous women triumphed over adversity and fulfilled their dreams.
• 920.72 M Madden, Annette. In Her Footsteps. Conari Press, 2002. From the Queen of Sheba to Queen Latifah, meet 101 remarkable women of African descent from around the world.
• YA PB NFC H Haskins, Jim. One More River to Cross. Scholastic, 1994. Consider inspiring leaders from Revolutionary War patriot Crispus Attucks to astronaut Ronald McNair.