In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader who vows to "make America great again" becomes president.

In rhyming text, when the whole family and guests show up for the big dinner at Grandma's house, it becomes clear that the house is much too small to hold them all.

A young farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken, until she learns something about the hen that makes her change her ways.

"In the Jim Crow South, twelve-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, with her cousins, Henry and Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her lighter skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer career up north in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. She doesn't expect to uncover new truths about her mother,...

Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.

Romiette, an Afro-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.

"A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family"--

Silke has an unexpected opportunity to learn what happened to her parents years before when Princess Katrin asks her to stay at the palace as a spy during a visit from the rulers of Elfenwald.--

New York Times bestselling author of One Last Word and Coretta Scott King award-winning Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes offers fresh novel in verse story about young heartbreak and hope.
For twelve years, Joylin Johnson's life has been just fine. A game of basketball with the boys-especially her friend Jake-was all it took to put a smile on her face. Baggy jeans, T-shirt, and hair in a ponytail were easy choices. Then,...