By Chance or Choiceby Toni
Staton Harris ~ This novel explores the
trials, tribulations and triumphs of five African-American Adults
experiencing their "terrible twos" also known as their twenties. This
journey through a world of love, lust, betrayal and danger will show that
nothing happens by chance but by choice.
My Man Blue
by
Nikki
Grimes, Jerome
Lagarrigue (Illustrator) ~ This against-the-odds book
from Grimes (Jazmin's Notebook, 1998, etc.) tells of an African-American
boy living in a neighborhood that cuts him no slack, and the man who helps
keep his feet grounded and his self-esteem steady against the occasional
buffeting of his peers. In fourteen poems, an
African-American boy talks about his friend Blue--a man his mother grew up
with, who has decided to take young fatherless Damon under his wing.