Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (Paperback)

$12.99

by Ibi Zoboi

Description

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.
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Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.

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Black is…three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds.

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Black is…Nic Stone’s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of.

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Black is…two girls kissing in Justina Ireland’s story set in Maryland.

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Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more—because there are countless ways to be Black enough.

About the Author

Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist; Nigeria Jones, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; Pride; My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich; Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel for Marvel; and the Walter Award and LA Times Book Prize–winning Punching the Air, cowritten with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. She is also a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner for her picture book The People Remember and her middle grade biography of Octavia Butler, Star Child. She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her family. 

Product Details

Category: Fiction, YA

Language: English

Format/Binding: Paperback

Book Condition: New

ISBN-10: 0062698737

ISBN-13: 978-0062698735

Publisher: Versify

Date Published: January 07, 2020

Pages: 416

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