Children & Young Adult

The only young adult book to tell the story of Aimé Césaire, the rise of Negritude, and the crusade for Black African and Caribbean independence from colonial rule. Aimé Césaire was a poet and, later, a politician from the Caribbean island of Martinique,...

Between moving off campus, gearing up to pledge a sorority, and trying to keep her faith first, Hayden Grant is about to become one very busy Beta. College sophomore Hayden Grant and her three roommates can't wait to join Beta Gamma Pi sorority. At...

At the prestigious Harlem Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, students are destined to realize their uptown dreams--as long as friends, haters, and crushes don't trip them up. . .La-La Nolan's killer voice could make her a superstar, but she's more...

When Elephant trod on Tricky Tortoise for the three hundred and thirty second time, Tortoise devised a cunning plan to teach Elephant a lesson. This is the story of how Tricky Tortoise proves that brains are often better than strength or size.

Man on third. Two outs. The pitcher eyes the base runner, checks for the sign. The fans in the jammed stadium hold their breath. Flapping his outstretched arms like wings, number 42 leads off again. It is September 1955, game one of the World Series, the...

Living your dreams is the hard part . . .Sunday Tolliver has a mega-smash album up for major awards--and her first few months as a college freshman are everything she hoped for. But juggling all this and her long-distance romance with boyfriend Sam is...

Hungry Hyena steals Fish Eagle's dinner and sets off a chain of events which leads to the hyenas reaching for the moon ... with disastrous results. This is the story of how Hungry Hyena came to slink about on the great African plain and how Fish Eagle...

The bigger the dreams, the bigger the drama. . . With major industry success and a year of college under her belt, Sunday Tolliver is ready to take her singer-songwriter talents to the next level. But new opportunities also mean totally unexpected drama...

Dishing on celebrity love games made Maya Morgan a media queen. But choosing her prince means working her wildest, most personal scoop yet...She's gone from gossip reporter to half of the entertainment industry's newest power couple. And hot singer J...

First boyfriends, first love, first mistakes-and an invitation to the hottest teen society party of the year send three friends into a tailspin. Can they handle the pressure of getting everything they think they want? Santana Jackson is one of the flyest...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Haitian immigrants, Frantzy Luzincourt has dedicated his life to service and the empowerment of youth voices. When he was fifteen, Frantzy became the founding president of his high school's Black Student Union, where he...

Life sucks. Big time. But guess what? I've got a dream no one can kill, and I've been planning how to make it come true.Charly's holdin' it down--she's got the attention of Mason, the new cutie around the way, she's setting the style for her crew, and if...