Young Readers (9 - 13)

Positive African American Plays For Children" is a great way to introduce children to drama. Filled with lessons, morals, and creativity, "Positive African American Plays For Children" is one of a kind. Book 3 features plays about the first African...

Positive African American Plays For Children Book 2 Positive upbeat plays for children anyone can easily produce at schools, churches, or anywhere children gather. Plays for Black History Month (featuring positive African Americans from yesterday and...

Treasure's dad has disappeared and her mom sets out to track him down, leaving twelve-year-old Treasure and her little sister, Tiffany, in small-town Virginia with their eccentric, dictatorial Great-Aunt Grace. GAG (as the girls refer to her) is a...

Franklyn "Franky" Bourgeois is 15, and he's already done more living than most. Now Franky's just a heartbeat away from a life of crime--until he gets an unexpected chance to turn things around.

Keysha's life is looking up. She's scored the lead in the school play, and her boyfriend, Wesley, has moved back home. Perfect, right? Except that a backstabbing rival is scheming to get her role, and rehearsals leave zero time for Wesley. Annotation:...

Another title in the AMAZING AMERICANS series, AMAZING OLYMPIC ATHLETE WILMA RUDOLPH explores the life of Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in the same Olympics. After attending the 1956 Olympics, where she won a bronze...

VIDEO INTERVIEW BELOW Six teens living in the diverse landscape of Washington, D.C., are on the grind at school, home, and work. The first in a trilogy, in which each book showcases 30 pieces of photo-illustrated art meshed within the frenetic,...

After a wild semester, the sisters of Beta Gamma Pi are worried that Alyx Cruz's partying is ruining their reputation on campus. When Alyx receives devastating news about her mom, and learns that because of low grades her scholarship is on the line, she...

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 (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...

A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy, poet Azure Antoinette, teen activist Gavin Grimm, and many, many...

Three Steps from a Mermaid's Heart Amaya longs to swim in the sea and on her tenth birthday she finally gets her wish. Unfortunately, as these stories often go, getting her wish may be more than Amaya's heart can handle. The Little Human is a modern...