Goodreads Summary: A girl wakes up on the train tracks, a subway car barreling down on her. With only moments to react, she hunches d...

2014 was a good year for books. There were so many I read this year that stuck with me and touched my heart. This is my narrowed-down lis...

Ali knows his neighborhood in Brooklyn has a bad rap, but he likes to stay above the fray. He's a kid who looks after his mom and his ...

Keith Richards is best known for being the guitarist in one of the most famous rock bands in the word, The Rolling Stones. As a child grow...

He had a gun in his hand. I'm sure of it. I laid eyes on it. I mean, I must have. The deep-stabbing kind of fear I felt; that doesn...

Did you know that: broccoli can be purple, bananas can be red, and cherries can be yellow?  As a foodie, I dig books like this. N...

A child's birthday soon turns into a raucous neighborhood party rife with food, friends, pets, music, and dancing. Playing on the tos...

I am Malcolm. I am my father’s son. But to be my father’s son means that they will always come for me. They will always come for me, and...

Black stride? It's: the arch of my back the curve of my spine the way I stand and my stance...

Sugar Hill, Sugar Hill where life's so sweet that pride rings out on every street.  Suga...

Nate Foster dreams of one day starring in a Broadway show, so when he catches wind of an open casting call for E.T.: The Musical , he and ...

A young woman searches. She sees. She explores. And finally, she creates. This beautiful picture book about Frida Kahlo is not so...

Maple , Lori Nichols' debut picture book as an author/illustrator, was a beautiful story about a nature-loving girl whose parents plan...

Gizmo, Sprinkles, and Wild love to build things. Rex likes to wreck things. "Gizmo's out-of-this-world rocket? Rex wrecks i...

When Cece Bell was four-years-old she developed meningitis, which left her "severely to profoundly deaf." El Deafo is the story...

Goodreads Summary: We've had the civil rights movement and the women's movement—now it's time for the youth movement. When D...