Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and mee

Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, s

"A father reassures his young son that although they cannot always be together, he misses his baby boy and always thinks about him." --

In small-town Carolina, sixteen-year-old Lutie Painter treasures the "Laundry List" of songs written by her ancestor and does not want to share t

Dyamonde is angry at her mother for not buying her the shoes she wants, but when she finds out that a classmate is in a worse situation, she is d

A mischievous eight-year-old boy helps his sister with a bully problem, while facing a bully of his own at school.

Co-captains Tiki and Ronde Barber lead their junior high teammates to the Virginia state football championship.

Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soo

As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, he must first have the difficult conversation Black families have with their sons, warning them about th

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul works at a Harlem soup kitchen, where he listens to lessons about "the

Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society a

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