Grimes, Nikki

A collection of poems describes a young boy's life with his working mother as he establishes his own identity and develops a close relationship with his mother's friend, Blue.

A collection of more than twenty poems speaking of different kinds of love.

Jazmin, an African-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life.

While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

A collection of poems about an African-American girl growing up in New York.

Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.

Alternating poems by a brother and sister convey their feelings about the death of their older brother and the impact it had on their family.

Poems celebrate the special relationship between a fiesty grandmother and her equally spunky granddaughter.

Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.

In this rhyming story, an African-American girl hides when it's time to comb and braid her hair.