YOUNG ADULT BOOKS BY

AFRICAN AMERICAN
AUTHORS
Chapa Library
 PHILLIS WHEATLEY
•The first
African-Ameri
can woman
to publish a
book of
poetry.
Angie Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=wmhxVNraW2M
Jason Reynolds
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=6fF
miHWltlQ
JACQUELINE WOODSON
Sharon Draper
Langston Hughes
Renee Watson
Maya Angelou

https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=TZ
O08C5vL2A
Walter Dean Myers
Tomi Adeyami
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?time_continue=
43&v=A7k8-x1v0sQ&fea
ture=emb_logo
Angela Johnson
Kwame Alexander

https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=wEbLVPpZ5pw
Nikki Grimes