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A biography of professional basketball player Lisa Leslie, covering her childhood, career, and more.

A biography of Willie Mays that discusses his childhood, baseball career in the Negro League and Major League Baseball, achievements, legacy, and other related topics.

Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year-old Benjie turns to heroin to escape. After Benjie hits rock bottom, his mother and her boyfriend must sacrifice to help him overcome his dependency.

While at a protest, Virgil Hawkins is sprayed with an experimental tear gas, and while some at the protest were maimed or killed, Virgil finds himself with the amazing new ability to channel and manipulate electromagnetic fields. But Virgil soon realizes he isn't the only one with powers. A new enemy named Hotstreak appears, and Virgil sets out to take him down.

"Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history. Challenging dominant perspectives, author Jermaine Fowler goes outside the textbooks to find recognizably human stories. Connecting current issues with the heroic struggles of those who have come before us, Fowler brings hidden history to light"--.

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.

Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.

Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.