Myers, Walter Dean

If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to relaize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketballl, he will have to imporrove at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new-white-student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.

This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the psychological shackles that hold some of its members slaves-even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of land that holds them together through it all.

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

Unable to fight a knight and thus win a wife, Harry the dragon seeks help from an unconventional fairy.

During an eventful summer in Harlem, 14 year old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone.