Five-year-old Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey in the night sky opens her eyes and changes everything.

Autobiography recounting the author's youth in apartheid South Africa and his escape from its oppression.

A girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.

This classic schoolroom drama of a black teacher in London's tough East End who triumphs over bigotry and ignorance to change the lives of his students forever was hailed by the New York Times as "a book that the reader devours quickly, ponders slowly, and forgets not at all" With opportunities for black men limited in post–World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching...

In South Africa, a young black boy shares a special day with his grandmother when they go into the city on a shopping trip.

Cinderella has been dead for 200 years. Now teen girls are required to appear at the annual ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives. Sixteen-year-old Sophia wants to marry her best friend Erin. She escapes from the ball and ends up in Cinderella's mausoleum. There she meets Constance, the last known descendent of Cinderella. Together, they vow to bring down the king once and for all.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts. The year is 1854. Anthony Burns, a Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston, but his freedom is short-lived. According to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Burns is soon imprisoned. The antislavery forces...