Kindred [Black Women Writers Series]by Butler, Octavia E. 

Paperback(Beacon Press, 2003)

BTSB #: 178377 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 580

Genres:

Subjects: African American women - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Slaves - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction Southern States - Fiction

Summary: Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end.

Rosa Parks [History's all-stars]by Kudlinski, Kathleen 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2014)

BTSB #: 534099 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Parks, Rosa,|d1913-2005 - Fiction African American women - Fiction

Summary: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks' refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. Now readers can learn about her childhood and the influences that gave this remarkable woman the courage to stand up for her rights.

Their eyes were watching God by Hurston, Zora Neale 

BTSB Prebound(Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2013)

BTSB #: 474517 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: African American women - Fiction

Summary: A classic about a young black woman and her coming to an understanding about love and happiness.

Women of Brewster Place by Naylor, Gloria 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Books, 1983)

BTSB #: 668787 Available

Dewey: FAges: 16-18   
AR: 6.4 UG

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: African American women - Fiction

Summary: Weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects -- a common prison and a shared home.