Children & Young Adult

Avoiding her mother's efforts to braid and bead her hair, a young girl imagines herself running away to a jungle. Racing through her house to avoid having her hair braided, a young girl relies on her imagination to help her escape the threat of being...

Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education Florida State Award Masterlist, Florida Reading Association Amelia Bloomer Project - Feminist Task Force, American Library Association (ALA) Story Telling World Award, Storytelling...

Learn more about Nigeria and the Yoruba language with this new extended edition! Now includes seven additional pages of maps and cultural information. Ayoka has been left in charge of the family goat, but within minutes it has vanished! As Ayoka searches...

The team behind Baby Goes to Market and B Is for Baby visit a Nigerian village for a humorous ode to childhood ingenuity. Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and...

Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can't prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this "gripping, magical, and heartwarming tale of resilience, friendship, and hope" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Wilhelmina...

Learn the value of a helping hand with Leon as he helps his sister prepare for her wedding day. His sister's big day has finally come, and Leon wants to help in any way he possibly can! But as Grandma, Mom and his sister's send him from room to room, his...

In this heartwarming tale inspired by her childhood, superstar chef and TV host Carla Hall shares the story of young Carla, who eats a sugar cookie meant for Santa on the night before Christmas and tries to make things right. Christmas is Carla's...

Caring for Clover is a semi-fictional story, based on actual events, about a young, brown girl named, Neenah. Neenah loves animals of all kinds, and wants to be a Veterinarian one day. When Clover came into her life, like any typical twelve-year old,...

Where does sea meet sky?Where does sound meet color?Where does song meet soul? Here is a place where children run, splash, and sing, on an island in the West Indies, in a world that is nothing short of magical. Rachel Isadora's glowing watercolors and...

When Candace Parker beat out all the boys at the McDonald's All-American slam dunk contest in 2004, she became the first female player to win the event. In the years that followed, Parker's list of achievements became long and ever-growing. She was WNBA...

A charming, inspired story about being true to who you are. - Phil Stamper, bestselling author of The Gravity of UsAn empowering and emotional debut about a genderqueer teen who finds the courage to stand up and speak out for equality when they are...

Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and...

Ellie is excited to go to Camp Hero, where the motto is: Where Super Friendships are Made! But when Ellie's cabinmates, superhero twins Mona and Leona, give her the cold shoulder, Ellie decides to use her parents' latest invention to get them to like her...

Kyle's summer is shaping up to be just like he'd hoped. He's finally getting to spend two months at his father's cabin in Michigan, learning how to shoot guns, drive trucks, and be a real man. But he can't help but wonder what's really going on in his...

A biracial student questions her identity in this contemporary novel from the author of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award-winning The Rock and the River. Ella and Z have been friends forever, both of them middle school outsiders in their Las...

A biracial student questions her identity in this contemporary novel from the author of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award-winning The Rock and the River. Ella and Z have been friends forever, both of them middle school outsiders in their Las...