Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

Rhyming text tells the story of a boy's long and wonderful day working on the farm with his family, from sunrise to dusk.

A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

"Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles" --

The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.

A young black boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and discovering that things do not die but become part of other things, brings the youngster new hope.

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest...

Told from alternating points of view, Chanel and Eleanor's rocky start to senior year gets more complex when the cheerleading team kneels for the national anthem and each girl grapples with the consequences.

When Jordan Greene moves from his home town in Tennessee to Manhattan, he learns to keep up with the fast pace of a Wall Street job, a stylish apartment, and a sexy girlfriend. But when he meets Kimberly Chavers, his heart really begins to race. She is funny, feisty, irresistible-and white. Now Jordan, who keeps Malcolm X's picture on his wall, has a problem. This is the book that launched Dickey's career as a New York Times best-selling author.