A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.

Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.

One rainy day while his father listens to his old records, his mother polishes a silver platter, and his brother enjoys his baseball card collect

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his

A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.

Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slave

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed aft

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she se

A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not unde