YA Authors & Fiction Crossword for Black History Month

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Across
  1. 5. Aspiring profession of protagonist in Kristina Forest's rom-com, I Wanna Be Where You Are
  2. 8. Last name, poet and author of novel-in-verse, The Crossover
  3. 9. Last name, award-winning Dominican American author of The Poet X
  4. 11. Title, award-winning novel about teen boy raising his infant daughter
  5. 13. Last name, author of sci-fi romance novel The Kindred
  6. 14. Title, novel about a boy who has the length of a 60-second elevator ride to make a fateful choice
  7. 15. Sharon M. Draper's novel about a girl with cerebral palsy
  8. 16. Last name, female author of intense, ripped-from-the-headlines thrillers like Allegedly and Grown
  9. 17. Last name, male author of mystery novels Fake ID and Endangered
Down
  1. 1. Title of 2021 novel about aspiring teen journalist who wins a contest, uncovers a scandal
  2. 2. Title of 2021 contemporary romance novel, written by six different authors
  3. 3. _______ is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
  4. 4. Last name, Children of Blood and Bone author
  5. 6. Title, 2020 debut fantasy novel based off King Arthur legend
  6. 7. Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage _______ by Echo Brown
  7. 10. First name for Nigerian-American author Iloh
  8. 12. Name of deadly beast in Ayana Grey's novel, Beasts of Prey