Children & Young Adult

Summer heats up for three teenaged girls in Los Angeles, a city known for its crime and glamour.

Gia Stokes is psyched for the start of her junior year at Longfellow High, but when her cousin Hope and Valerie, the co-captain of Gia's dance squad, want Gia to set them up with her newly hot best friend Ricky, Gia's not sure what to do.

2009 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree (Illustrator)In July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon. That historic event inspires a young girl to dream big, in this moving tribute to the Apollo 11 mission...

2009 Coretta Scott King Book Award HonoreeOn April 7, 1915, a girl named Eleanora Fagan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Weatherford examines the...

In the follow-up to his national bestselling "Letters to a Young Brother," Harper, an inspiring public speaker and "CSI: NY" star, shares powerful wisdom with young women, drawing on the courageous advice of female role models who transformed his life...

2009 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree (Author) So many unanswered questions weigh down thirteen-year-old C.J. as he struggles to understand why his father walked out. His father is back now, though C.J. is not as quick to forgive as the other...

2009 John Newbery Award HonoreeIt is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not tree. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the...

Lost and alone after a grueling escape north, 16-year-old former plantation slave Belle Palmer finds that freedom holds many surprises for a girl from Kentucky--not the least of which is falling in love with someone else's beau.

The first book in an exciting and inspiring new series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley Their lives are nothing but drama. . . . Camille can't believe her bad luck when she's ordered to join a church youth group after hiding...

New York City -- are you ready for the Divine Divas? Because these teenage gospel music sensations are ready for you Veronique wants to be a star just as much as her fellow Divas do, but there's more to it than just fame for her. Unlike her middle-class...

"Dreamgirls" meets "Gossip Girls" in this brand-new teen series by an "Essence]" bestselling author, which follows the ups and downs of four 15-year-old African-American girls who form their own singing group.Diamond. India. Veronqie. Aaliyah. What does...

How will Maya create a brighter world? By learning to honor her glowing feelings, just like Black women have done throughout history!Maya feels a warm glow when she picks strawberries in the community garden, hears music in her neighborhood, or spends...