Imagine being looked up and down and being valued as less than a chair. Less than an ox. Less than a dress. Maybe about the same as a lantern. You're an object-an object to be sold. Inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that listed the worth of each and every one of his workers, Ashley Bryan uses original documents from slave auctions and plantation estates to create moving and powerful poetry and illustrations that contrast the monetary...

Yolanda Joe, author of the best-selling novels Bebe's By Golly Wow and This Just In, takes a pen name to craft her first mystery novel. Her smart-as-a-whip, wisecracking heroine is Georgia Barnett, a daring television news reporter who knows her way around Chicago's toughest neighborhoods. When a young girl known as Butter describes a drive-by shooting suspect to Georgia on live TV, the girl soon turns up missing. Feeling responsible, Georgia works...

Terry McMillan utilizes her trademark sass to craft this funny and extremely useful guide for today's college-bound young adults. When she was asked to speak at her son's high school commencement, McMillan started jotting down practical tips to share. She eventually collected enough wisdom to produce a pamphlet and hand it out at the ceremony. To her surprise, advice like, "Don't listen to your parents," was a big hit with the graduates and their...

For eighth-grader Delia Douglas, competing in the World Double Dutch Championships with her best friends is a dream that has come true through hours of hard practice. But that dream is now threatened by a terrible secret: Delia can't read. And unless she finds the courage to reach out and get help, she might never jump in another Double Dutch meet again.

After a brief stint in drug rehab, Calysta is back on the set and ready for action as she resumes her role as the star of The Rich and the Ruthless. But not everyone in the cast and crew is happy to have the diva back. As soon as she wraps her first return episode, some of her colleagues and cast members are conspiring, once again, to sabotage her career. She's already survived amnesia, an alien abduction, and death three times over, but all that...