Black Love - Young Adult Fiction

Books from the young adult collection that highlight the spectrum of black love.
 

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1. Rise to the sun

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Author:
Johnson, Leah (Young adult author)
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black bisexual female x Black lesbian female
Formats:
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Description:
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again), and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one"...

2. The stars and the blackness between them

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Author:
Petrus, Junauda
Notes:
MC Rep: Black Trinidadian lesbian female x Black lesbian female
Formats:
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Description:
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.

3. The weight of the stars

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Author:
Ancrum, Kayla
Notes:
MC Rep: Black butch lesbian female; biracial (half-Black, half-white) lesbian female LI
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Description:
Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the "wrong" side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann's offer of friendship. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the girls are brought together...