When Janie Starks returns to her rural Florida home, her small black community is overwhelmed with curiosity about her relationship with a younger man.

Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, even poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.

Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

A young girl camps out in her bedroom and is joined by her mother.

Ellie Engle doesn't stand out. Not at home, where she's alone with her pet fish since her dad moved away and her mom has to work around the clock . Not at the bakery, where she helps out old Mr. Walker on the weekends. And definitely not at school, where her best friend Abby--the coolest, boldest, most talented girl in the world--drags Ellie along on her never-ending quest to "make her mark." To someone else, a life in the shadows might seem boring,...

When his father figure, Fatty Daddy, become caught up with a notorious drug dealer, nineteen-year-old gangster Lamont "Hood" Mason and his best friend decide to help the man and get involved in a dark world of sex, violence, and betrayal.

Maya loves to dance, leap, pirouette, and bow in tutus and leotards or kente cloth and cowrie shells.

Told from the perspective of both the girl, Nia, and her pet turtle, Alfie, and describes what happens when he disappears on the eve of her seventh birthday to find her a special present.

After learning about the Peace Crane, created by Sadako, a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, a young African American girl wishes it would carry her away from the violence of her own world.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. Board book.