The explosive sequel to "Tears of a Tiger" finds Gerald moving back in with his mother, little sister, and step-father. Fascinated by fire as a child, he accidentally ignited his apartment and was sent to the loving home of his favorite aunt. Now he's back with his mom--where flames once again deter ...
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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.
Fourteen-year-old Tree encounters a young stranger who turns out to be the ghost of her mother's dead brother and who takes her into an exploration of her family's recent past.
Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is determined to save enough money so that she and her mother can move from their current home in a housing project to a safer neighborhood. Will Raspberry's self-acknowledged obsession with money skew her priorities and values?
Set in Mississippi in 1941, The Road to Memphis describes three harrowing, unforgettable days in the life of an African-American high school girl dreaming of law school. Caught up in the center of tense racial dramas unfolding around her, Cassie Logan is forced to confront the adult world as never b ...
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Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.