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Nonfiction > Chapter/Middle > Self Love/Identity/Awareness

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Jaime Adoff
Small Fry
Kwame Alexander/James Patterson
Becoming Muhammad Ali 
Mahogany L. Browne/ Elizabeth Acevedo/Olivia Gatwood
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
Veronica Chambers
Resist: Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
Alton Carter
The Boy Who Carried Bricks — A True Story of Survival
Michaela DePrince
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by War, Saved by Ballet: An Extraordinary True Story
Baba Wagué Diakité
A Gift from Childhood 
Carolyn A. Forche
That’s Not Nice what You Did to Me
Gabrielle Jordan
The Making of A Young Entrepreneur: A Kid’s Guide to Developing the Mind-Set for Success
Julius Lester
Who I Am
Walter Dean Myers
Bad Boy: A Memoir
Andrea Pippins
I Love My Hair: A Coloring Book of Braids, Coils, and Doodle Dos
Wynter Pitts
I Am Yours: Prayers for God’s Girl   
Sharon Robinson
Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963)
Crystal Swain-Bates
Color My Fro: A Natural Hair Coloring Book for Big Hair Lovers of All Ages
Leon Walter Tillage
Leon’s Story
Jacqueline Woodson
brown girl dreaming

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