"A little boy with a very loud voice learns the perfect (and not so perfect) times to use it..."--

Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.

"When a little boy paints his nails with his mom's nail polish, he finds colors to express his every mood and feeling."--Page [4] of cover.

"In this illustrated early chapter book, a young boy and his grandfather work together to save a beached orca."--

A magical striped suit lets a boy become a bee for a day.

Rupert is a four-year-old boy, with a great imagination and a hunger for excitement. Luckily for him, his fun-loving grandparents share his infectious spirit. This story sees the three adventurers whizz off to Monaco to take part in the Formula 1, but will they stand a chance at winning and will Mum and Dad believe their wondrous tale?

The dead-pan narration in this debut picture book delivers a perfect child-like vision with humor and panache, depicted in luminous detail. A little boy shows what happens when he drops larger and larger objects, both in terms of size and imagination, down a mysterious hole that grows throughout the year in his garden. But what happens in December?

A normal kid on the weekends, Zach turns into a bully-stopping superhero during the week whenever he sees someone who is being picked on.

When a boy is swept up in a wave of sadness, he finds himself tumbling. But when he remembers that this sadness won't last forever, and that the wave will eventually carry him back to shore, he discovers his friends and family waiting to gently pull him out of the water and back home.

In the summer of 1965, sixteen-year-old Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.