Africa Reader

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister. It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our...

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer “An ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire...

The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller! This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space...

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who...

The New York Times bestselling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a...

1950. In a shack in the Georgia backwoods two siblings, Hannah Mae and Jerry, find themselves suddenly orphaned. The swift and unexpected death of their mother casts a long shadow of foster care, threatening to tear them apart. But fierce and resolute, Hannah Mae vows to keep the system from swallowing them whole. In a desperate bid for freedom, they hit the dusty roads, aiming for the sultry embrace of Mississippi and an obscure auntie, a phantom relative who exists only as a whisper in their memories and a faded photograph in their father’s old Bible. She is their only hope, their ...

Worlds collide, secrets are laid bare, and nothing is sacred in this highly anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling Immortal Dark series! Beware the monster, beware the girl. They feed on wild devotion. Kidan Adane stands at the edge of a world on the brink—where ancient rules no...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller! A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race. The...

Perfect for fans of Promise Boys, this gripping historical mystery follows a teenager who finds a murdered girl on her family's California beach—a discovery that will reveal the racism rampant in her world. Fifteen-year-old Blue Collins’s parents own the only Black beach in Santa Monica in...

Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes goes West in this thrilling adventure story about a son and his father who set out to win land during the Oklahoma Land Rush–if they can survive the journey. It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and...

FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in...

Nikki Maxwell raises money for a local animal shelter in this fourth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki Maxwell isn’t at all surprised to find out that her crush Brandon volunteers at a local animal shelter—of course he wants to help those adorable...

She survived being sold. Now she must survive the man who owns her. Sarah once worked inside the big house. Now she labors in the cotton fields of a powerful Mississippi planter known simply as Crowe, a man who rules his plantation with quiet authority and absolute control. Sarah obeys. She works. She keeps her head down. But she doesn’t break. Crowe begins to notice the girl in the fields who never complains, never argues, and never quite bends the way the others do. There’s something steady in her that refuses to yield, something that quietly unsettles the order he’s built on his ...

When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them. In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years that followed he became a part of their family. And as he battled to create a bond with the elephants, he came to realize that they had a great deal to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom.

An action-packed superhero story from New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste Win “Coal” Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy family named the McKays. They seem eager to welcome Coal, but he’s wary of trusting them. So, he doesn’t...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing...

From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes a searing and breathtaking story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family. In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather and...

He was a scholar before he was a slave. Long before Omar Ibn Said arrived in America in chains, he was one of West Africa's most highly educated Muslim scholars. He spent nearly twenty-five years studying the Qur'an, Arabic, theology, law, and literature. Then, in 1807, everything changed. Captured during a conflict in his homeland, Omar was forced across the Atlantic during the brutal Middle Passage and sold into slavery in the United States. Yet even in captivity, no one could take away the knowledge, faith, and dignity that had shaped his life. More than twenty years later, Omar wrote ...

The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that made him feel socially awkward...

An amazing, miraculous refugee story of coming to America, the young readers edition of Tani Adewumi's story will inspire kids looking for true stories of doing hard things. At eight years old, Tani Adewumi, a refugee, won the 2019 New York State Chess Championship after playing the game for...