african american boys

Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.

Paperboy does his best to stand up to the school bullies and bring peace to the playground.

Eleven-year-old Michael Wood, a superhero named Paperboy whose superpower is standing-up to bullies, takes on the League of Evil People, a teacher, and someone who wants to ruin him.

Eleven-year-old Michael Wood becomes a superhero named Paperboy, whose superpower is standing-up to bullies, and tries to bring peace to his school playground.

Benji Cooper, the son of a doctor and a lawyer, is one of very few African-American students at an elite Manhattan prep school in 1985, which is why he so looks forward to summer when he and his brother Reggie, left alone for most of the week while their parents work, can relax within the comfortable confines of the community of professional African-Americans that spend the warm months at Sag Harbor.

Romeo Braxton's decision over which college football program to accept a scholarship from is put on the back burner after his older brother, Kwame, is released from prison and his absentee mother comes back into their lives and is beaten up by thugs, forcing him to figure out who really supports him and what he wants for his future.

An illustrated account of Jim Limber, a slave child who was taken in by the family of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and raised along with the Davis children until being kidnapped by Yankees.

Jake Benchley defends an African-American man who was accused of rape and subsequently lynched, and, along with the dead man's son, becomes the target of the men responsible for the crime.

A collection of poems from the viewpoint of a young boy living in the projects.