When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with Cecile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.

In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined--to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is known as a Blue, for the color of her sadness. She lives in a small room with her dog, who is going wolf--he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf, too. She wants to know what is beyond her room. In the present, Imogen lives outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. The...

The early bird catches the worm! At least that's what Libby's dad says. So when Libby's family goes camping, Libby decides to get up extra early to catch some worms for their fishing trip. The only problem now is that Libby is too tired to go fishing. But that's good news for the worms that get a new garden home on the farm. -Amazon.com

Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she's certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton--if only she can wrap her head...

In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

Cecile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.

Nothing has gone right for Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting, he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.

Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.

A collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.