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"Fifth-grader Merlin Montgomery, aka Big Monty has to save his school again! Can this science-loving kid stop a cyborg substitute who froze the whole class? Merlin won't be able to do it alone. He'll need help from his life-long enemy, A'lo and his super-smart sister, Josephine"--Back cover.

"Jaden Toussaint, 5 year-old scientist and all around cool dude, must save his school from a (possible) alien invasion. His only weapons are science, ninja dancing, the super-powered brain power of his seriously awesome group of friends"--OCLC.

"Jaden Toussaint, 5 year-old scientist and all around cool dude, is on a mission to convince the grown-ups that he needs more screen time. His only weapons are science, ninja dancing, and his super-powered brain power"--Amazon.

"Provides . . . guidance to educators and others on what can be done to support boys and young men of color . . . Jackson outlines strategies and practices that can be helpful in counteracting the negative trends and altering the life trajectories of young Black and Latino males"--Foreword.

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

Contains nine short stories set in Brooklyn and the South Bronx that feature the vulnerability of black men and boys who frequently deal with race, gender, and class issues while coping with relationships between friends, lovers, and family.

In the 1960s, Elwood is college-bound until he makes a mistake that lands him at a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose staff profess to shape inmates into upstanding young men but who routinely deliver vicious beatings and sexual abuse and make sure resisters disappear forever. The shocked Elwood takes Martin Luther King's pacifist approach to events, but friend Turner has other ideas. Whitehead researched the Florida Industrial School for Boys (later the Dozier Academy), where a secret mass grave was found after its 2011 closure.

"Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.

"Giant Afro. Even Bigger Brain. Jaden Toussaint is a five year-old who knows it all ... There's nothing Jaden Toussaint can't do. [But] this time our hero must survive all alone with just his mother, father, and all his friends to keep him company while Sissy goes to sleepaway camp. Sissy being gone is bad enough, but now that she is, who will protect him from... The Swamp Thing?"--Provided by publisher.

"Jaden Toussaint, 5 year-old scientist and all around cool dude, is on a mission to convince the grown-ups that he needs more screen time. His only weapons are science, ninja dancing, and his super-powered brain power"--Amazon.