Title: Always Outnumbered and Always Outgunned Author: Walter Mosley Publisher: Norton Books Date: 1998 Description: The story is about a man who has been incarcerated for twenty-seven years for murdering two people. After his release he is now a changed man who now wants to do more good than harm. He moves to Los Angeles for a new start on life while dealing with poverty, and racism.

Title: Fences Author: August Wilson Publisher: Viking Penguin Date: 1986 Description: During the 1950�s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.

Title: The House On Mango Street Author: Sandra Cisneros Publisher: Vintage Books Date: 1989 Description: The Story is about a young girl named Esperanza Cordero growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.

Title: Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, And Stuff Author: Walter Dean Myers Publisher: Puffin Books Date: 1988 Description: The book is about a young boy named Stuff. He was twelve years old, when his parent�s moves to a new neighbor hood in Harlem, New York. He meets new friends and begins years of unusual experiences.

Title: The Autobiography Of Malcolm X Author: Alex Haley Publisher: Grove Press, Inc Date: 1973 Description: The absorbing personal story of a man who rose from life of poverty and advantage to became the most dynamic leader of the Black revolution only to have his life cut short by an assassin�s bullet.

Title: Death Of A Sales Man Author: Arthur Miller Publisher: Penguin Group Date: 1976 Description: Willy Loman the protagonist has spent his life following the American way living out his belief as a salesman ship as a way to reinvent himself. At age 63 he searches for the moment of life that took a wrong turn.

Title: A Raisin In The Sun Author: Lorraine Hansberry Publisher: Vintage Books Date: 1994 Description: A play about an African American family overcoming odds to remain a whole and free in the 1950�s.

Title: Spider Town Author: Abraham Rodriguez Publisher: Viking Penguin Date: 1994 Description: The story is about life in the south Bronx in the early 1980�s. The story focuses on the Protagonist as he lives his life as a drug runner.

Title: Fly Girl Author: Omar Tyree Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date: 1997 Description: The Story is about a young girl who grows up in a middle class Philadelphia suburb of Germantown. She is motivated by the material lifestyle and plays a game of love and leaves the young men who will do anything to get next to her.

Title: Dear Mr. President Author: Hannibal Coons Publisher: Key Publishers, Inc. Date: 1971 Description: The Book is based on kids around the world ages six through eighteen writing hilarious letters to the president concerning different issues.

Title: The Coldest Winter Ever Author: Sister Souljah Publisher: Pocket Books Date: 1999 Description: The Coldest Winter Ever is the streetwise, life-of �crime saga of Winter Santiaga. The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn drug kingpin.

Title: Your Blues Ain�t Like Mines Author: Bebe Moore Campbell Publisher: Ballantine Books Date: 1995 Description: A black Chicago Born Teen goes to the Deep South for the summer and is murdered for saying the wrong thing to a white woman. Repercussions are felt by everyone involved, both Black and White.

Title: Brothers & Sisters Author: Bebe Moore Campbell Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Date: 1994 Description: A Los Angeles African American woman Esther Jackson has a promising career at a downtown bank. When a new Black male vice president�s behavior draws a sexual harassment suit, Esther is forced to examine her own loyalties.

Title: growing up with and without a father Author: Bebe Moore Campbell Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Date: 1995 Description: The story is based on the character growing up in divided world between her mother�s house in Philadelphia and the sweet summer spent south with a disable father. Sweet summer is her acclaimed account of those years finding her father in a fractured family.

Title: Joe Turner�s Come And Gone Author: August Wilson Publisher: Samuel French Inc Date: 1988 Description: A chain gang laborer flees to Pittsburgh in 1911 to find his lost wife. The book is based on African Americans rebuilding their life�s 46 years after the Civil War.