Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.
Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.
Twelve-year-old Mariah envisions a great summer competing as a diver and planning a surprise party for her sister Lynn, but half-sister Denise proves a cloud in Mariah's sunny summer.
On a hot, humdrum day, Ty meets a man who claims to be a one-man band. As promised he returns that evening to play, and using a washboard, comb, spoons, and pail, fills that night with music and makes everyone dance.
Despite his love of drawing and his feelings of inadequacy as an athlete, six-foot-tall sixth-grader Xander "Suitcase" Bingham works to become a basketball and baseball player to win the approval of his father and stop his classmates' teasing.
Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.
A fictional recreation of the 1957 integration of Little Rock's Central High School, focusing on the experiences of two girl students, one white, the other black.
When his family attends a reunion in Louisiana, eleven-year-old Ray learns about his Creole roots and about the circumstances that have kept him from ever meeting his father's father.
