

She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. She is also the New York Times Bestselling author of Pride, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, and Punching the Air with co-author and Exonerated Five member, Yusef Salaam. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List. Ibi Zobois debut novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist.

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.īlack is.sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.īlack is…three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds.īlack is…Nic Stone’s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of.īlack is…two girls kissing in Justina Ireland’s story set in Maryland.īlack is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more-because there are countless ways to be Black enough. Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens todayBlack Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America.
