1996 Notable Book for Children, Smithsonian MagazinePick of the Lists, American BooksellerIn the segregated south, a young girl thinks that she can drink from a fountain marked "Whites Only" because she is wearing her white socks.When Grandma was a l...
Trying to find out why her man did her wrong and who did him in, this woman isn't waiting to exhale--she's ready to fight back.
Patricia Conley considers herself to be a brother's worst nightmare. A lifetime of hurt has made her fierce. A life...
It's 1928. Bessie Coulter's father whisks her from their North Carolina farm to Harlem, New York, with no explanation -- leaving Mama behind. Twelve-year-old Bessie's determination to find out what's happening to her family leads her into the midst o...
With her mom working crazy hours at a dilapidated motel and her sister on welfare, fourteen-year-old Keisha is determined to attend Avery University for a precollege premed program but is instead sent to a summer program for at-risk kids where she di...
When Mandy discovers that members of the KKK are using her secret forest clearing to plan a bombing of the nearby Highlander School during a speech by Eleanor Roosevelt, she must race against time to thwart the Klansmen's evil plot, in a thrilling my...
Addy is overjoyed when Poppa's new boss offers the Walker family a home of their own on his property in Philadelphia's elegant Society Hill neighborhood. But Addy soon discovers that their new home holds frightening secrets, and one leads str...
An enthralling account of a young boy's struggle to help freedom triumph over fear in the 1940s American South. It's 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train -- a train that is travel...
As Cécile exits a crowded showboat after enjoying a lavish Floating Circus, she stumbles--and when she gets up, she realizes that the cameo necklace she borrowed from her aunt is no longer on her neck. Knowing that the necklace was the last gift Tan...