My Favorite Urban Fiction Titles for Teens, from Miranda Doyle, San Francisco

Monster

Drive-By

Party Girl

A Child Called It

The Skin I'm In

Spellbound

Chill Wind

Money Hungry

Begging for Change

Emako Blue

Bang!

The Afterlife

Street Love

Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Romiette and Julio

Dymond In the Rough

The AB-Solute Truth

Imani All Mine

Broken China

Tears of the Tiger

Tyrell

Street Pharm

Upstate

Push

Rooftop

What Am I Without You?

Hip Hop High School

The Hoopster

Imani in Young Love and Deception

Tears of a Tiger Forged by Fire Darkness Before Dawn The Bluford Series (Matter of Trust, Lost & Found, Second Chance, etc. -- get the reissued ones with the new, much more appealing covers!)

Rose that Grew From Concrete (nonfiction)