READING LIST

OutStretch Literary Advancements, Inc. is committed to supplying quality multicultural literature in our mini libraries created for foster group homes. As such, we’ve created a continuously growing list of books we feel individuals should read before they graduate from high school.

If you have any of these new or gently worn books, we’d love to receive them as a donation. Send us an email to learn how to donate any of these books.

Book / Author
The Story of My Life / Farah Ahmedi
Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou
The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood
Sounder / William H. Armstrong
Giovanni’s Room / James Baldwin
My People the Sioux / Luther Standing Bear
Brian’s Song / William Blinn
World's End / T. Coraghessan Boyle
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
Wild Seed / Octavia Butler
Mind of my Mind / Octavia Butler
The Pattern Maker / Octavia Butler
The Rape of Nanking / Iris Chang
When I was a Slave / Anthology Collection
Mississippi Trial / Chris Crowe
Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
Bad / Jean Farris
Finding Fish: A Memoir / Antwon Fisher
The Skin I’m In / Sharon Flake
Breathing Underwater / Alex Flinn
Breaking Point / Alex Flinn
A Lesson Before Dying / Ernest Gaines
The Miracle Worker / William Gibson
Net of Jewels / Ellen Gilchrist
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea / Nikki Giovanni
Blues: For All the Changes / Nikki Giovanni
Lord of the Flies / William Golding
The Vision of Emma Blau / Ursula Hegi
Witness / Karen Hesse
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes
The Lottery Rose / Irene Hunt
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs
Typical American / Gish Jen
Damage / A.M. Jenkins
Waiting / Ha Jin
Cold, Black, and Hungry / Stephen Earley Jordan II
Beyond Bougie / Stephen Earley Jordan II
The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
Women in Love / DH Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
The Winged Seed / Li-Young Lee
The Contender / Robert Lipsyte
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name / Audre Lorde
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother / James McBride
Cut / Patricia McCormick
A Fine Balance / Rohinton Mistry
The Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday
Beloved and The Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison
Monster / Walter D. Myers
The Women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart / Joyce Carol Oates
Dreams from My Father / Barack Obama
Sarny / Gary Paulsen
Nightjohn / Gary Paulsen
A Child Called “It” / David Peltzer
The Lost Boy
A Man Named David / David Peltzer
The Feast of All Saints / Anne Rice
Days of Obligation / Richard Rodriguez
Hunger of Memory / Richard Rodriguez
American Dreams / Sapphire
Black Wings & Blind Angels / Sapphire
Push / Sapphire
The Story of the Amistad / Emma Gelders Stern
Strangers from a Different Shore / Ronald Tanaka
A Different Mirror / Ronald Tanaka
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry / Mildred D. Taylor
Marked by Fire / Joyce Carol Thomas
The Color Purple / Alice Walker
Up From Slavery / Booker T. Washington
If You Come Softly / Jacqueline Woodson
Black Boy / Richard T. Wright
Native Son / Richard T. Wright
Amercan Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang