Cécile 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.

Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.

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

A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things

The story of how a cynic and a hopeless romantic become friends, fall in love, and break up unfolds from their different perspectives.

Aria loves her soft and bouncy hair, but must go to extremes to avoid people who touch it without permission until, finally, she speaks up. Includes author's note.

"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world"--|cProvided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.