Disentangles intersections of race, class, pop culture, body image, and sexuality while confronting what it means to be a young Black woman in America.

This is A Book About Ripening. About the changes that life and age and time do to us, do for us; about accepting some changes, screaming about others, letting g

A Newbery Honor Book Can Tigre find the strength and courage to support his family? When Tigre’s father is badly injured in an accident, the family is thrown

A touching portrayal of a little girls story, beautifully woven into a work of fiction, through her eyes and in her own lyrical Creole voice. Force Ripe is not