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

"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.

"When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers"--

Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind...

The bestselling Newbery Honor-winning story of an African-American family's experience traveling through the South in the turbulent 1960s. Ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons, make their way from Flint, Michigan to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, and travel through one of the darkest moments in American history. The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan,...

While her mother works magic styling her hair, a young Black girl recalls how her hairstyles can reflect the natural world and show that her hair can be elegant, mischievous, or whimsical.

A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children...

Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.