Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

Living in a prosperous African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles is Mack Street, a mystery child. Abandoned by his birth mother, Mack passes from family to family, a boy surrounded by people yet deeply alone. He realizes how different he is from others the day he sees a narrow house. Passing through the magic house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm in which time and reality are skewed. There, what Mack does has strange effects...

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.

Victoria Madaris shows Roman Malone, a rising U.S. senator, around her picturesque Catalina Cove at the encouragement of her matchmaking great-grandmother despite her mistrust of politicians.

So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Huseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe him the murderer. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek for...

When their "no frills" wedding turns into the event of the decade with the help of well-meaning neighbors, former high school sweethearts Lily Fontaine and Trent July consider eloping until something happens to remind them that happiness is to be shared.

Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.

Spending the summer with their grandmother in the rural South, three sisters from Brooklyn discover the surprising reason behind their mother's estrangement from their aunt.

If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.

"A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--