Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

"In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance"--Provided by publisher.

When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.

"A biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler"--Provided by publisher.

As a new recruit of the Dora Milaje on her very first mission outside of Wakanda, Okoye is sent to Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn that's experiencing extreme gentrification. Spending time with the other young people of Brownsville, Okoye soon learns about the plans of Stella Adams, a wealthy, powerful real estate mogul who is behind most of the gentrification in the neighborhood, but she is shocked to discover Adams's hand in a more sinister plot: one involving a drug called PyroBliss that seems to be consuming Brownsville. While her captain, Aneka, and her King, T'chaka, refuse to take action, Okoye is conflicted on what to do. She wants to help her new friends but doesn't want to jeopardize their diplomatic mission, and Okoye is forced to make decision between her duty to her king and country and helping those that need her the most.

". . . a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler"--Provided by publisher.

". . . YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated"--Provided by publisher.

Recounts the journey of African descendants in America by connecting their history to the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

". . . YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated"--Provided by publisher.

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it' With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.

Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.