Woodson, Jacqueline

A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.

Eleven-year-old Margaret tries to accept the inevitable changes that come one summer when her father dies and her best friend Maizon goes away to a private boarding school.

After Mama takes a job in Chicago during World War II, Ada Ruth stays with Grandma but misses her mother who loves her more than rain and snow.

A mother passes on the tradition of making quilts, or "Show ways", that serve as secret maps for freedom seeking slaves.

Thirteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman.

"Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider"--Provided by publisher.

A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.

"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--.

When August runs into a long-ago friend, the surprise launches her memories back to her adolescence in 1970s Brooklyn. August and her best friends Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi share secrets and hopes for the future in their changing and sometimes dangerous neighborhood.