Teen Books for Black History Month 2025

A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago’s South Side in the period between World Wars I and II.

In 1921 in the “Black Wall Street” of Tulsa, Oklahoma, seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson, a troublemaker with a secret passion for reading, and sixteen-year-old Angel Hill, a loner whose peers disregard her as a “goody-goody,” find themselves suddenly spending a lot of time together when their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library. But as the two grow closer, their lives change drastically after a white mob destroys their community and leaves the residents displaced.

Covering sixteen topics and featuring more than two dozen interviews with prominent activists, authors, actors, and politicians, this is the essential resource for those who want to make the world better than we found it.

Poet Renée Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection.

Twelve-year old Black girl Charley, who dreams of becoming the first professional female pitcher, must navigate adolescence during the turbulent segregation era and the beginning of the Great Migration.

Despondent sixteen-year-old Malcolm finds new strength and courage as he is transported between his family’s modern-day Mississippi farm and the life of his ancestor Cedric Johnson, a congressional aide in post-Civil War America.

The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love–even where they are not supposed to.

An illuminating set of profiles of Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance, interspersed with personal essays.

A historical novel about Ida B. Wells, from her teen years up through becoming an investigative journalist and civil rights crusader without peer

Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.

A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker , when she was just 22 years old.

When eighteen-year-old Noni moves to Tangleroot plantation in rural Virginia for her mom’s new position as a college president, she uncovers long-buried secrets of the town’s racist past and present.

Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home.