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150 women, actresses, entertainers, politicians, teachers, businesswomen, and historians, are presented in brief biographies, showing their strengths, talents and value.

For teens or others interested in the "true voice" of African-Americans, the authors deliver a positive and empowering message that doesn't back away from the truth.

A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.

Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.

A teen tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.

Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

A collection of short stories about boys and girls and their relationtionships.

Biography of Marian Anderson, a famed vocalist who left her mark on musical and social history.

While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they´ve written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family´s problems.

Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances´s mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.

In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is dreams of escaping North Carolina, and moving to Harlem. Then her Uncle Buddy is arrested for assaulting a white woman, and her grandfather is diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.

Dear America Series: Teenager Biddy Owens´ 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons, racism the team faces, and his family´s resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

Six poems about a slave’s bones. Fortune died, was dissected by his owner, and his bones displayed in a museum. The bones were recently rediscovered, and these poems were written to commemorate Fortune’s life.

Twelve-year-old Sarny´s brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

400 entries, and 75 pages of photographs of little-known African-American achievers in literature, science, sports, entertainment, government, law, etc.

While spending the summer at the School of American Ballet in New York City, fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris must come to terms with the reality of her parents´ divorce, her crush on Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the impact of being an African American on her future as a dancer.

Excerpts from the diary of a woman who served as nurse to a regiment of black soldiers fighting for the Union during the Civil War, including her observations on the treatment of "coloreds" after the war.

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people´s reactions.