Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award A School Library Journal Best Book A Booklist Editor's Choice
Bobby's a classic urban teenager.
Twelve-year-old Mike -- short for Michaela -- loves the ocean.
Minnie and her sister hear about a freedom march and leave their home to go to their city's downtown area where they listen to Dr. Martin Luther King and join the march, all the while smelling roses.
A young girl's grandmother tells her of her love for baseball and the day they let her play in the game even though she was a girl.
Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Angela Johnson writes a poignant young adult novel of deception, self-discovery, and knowing what to do when truth is at hand.
Running Back to Ludie
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
This collection of interrelated short stories is a true delight, perfect for newly emerging independent readers. Both girls and boys will cheer for this spunky girl as she takes on Magnolia Street and blossoms day by day.
Lottie Paris goes to the library, her favorite place in the world, and makes a new friend for whom the library is also a special place. Full color.
Award-winning author Angela Johnson and illustrator Scott Fischer take you inside the mind of a spunky girl and the imaginative world she lives in with this delightful story now available as a Classic Board Book!