Like the blues--sweet, sad, and full of truth--this masterful work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but abov

"Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory,

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understandin

Addy's new life in Philadelphia in the late 1860s continues to hold surprises, as she competes in a kite festival and her teacher recommends her

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

Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave

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

After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn

When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including on

When her grandfather registers to vote while living in segregated Mississippi, an Afro-American girl begins to understand why he insists that she

Little Bill and his friends, avid fans of the television show "Space Explorers, " clamor to get the video game version, but they find that they h

In the spring of 1865, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend and chooses a birthday for herself as she and her parents try to shape a new life