Channie Waites

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

Micah is a liar, and she's always managed to stay one step ahead of her lies--until her boyfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. At first the truth comes easily, because it is a lie. The second truth is so unbelievable that it must be a lie. And the honest truth is buried deep in Micah's mind, where even she doesn't know if it's real.

More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.

Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement.In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only one of her friends to go to this new school and to leave the comfort of all that is familiar to...

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay awake feel like they're the only people in the world. Stay up and listen to these thirteen short stories, and prepare to be whisked off into the darkness of night.

"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...

Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.

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.

It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...

"After her life is upended by divorce and a cross-country move, 16-year-old Saskia Brown feels like an outsider at her new school-not only is she a transplant, she's also biracial in a population of mostly white students. One day while visiting her only friend at her part-time library job, Saskia encounters a vial of liquid mercury, then touches an old daguerreotype-the precursor of the modern-day photograph-and makes a startling discovery. She is...