The Bluest EyeIn Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove an 11 year old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue eyed children can devastate all others prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to

the normal world and the one infused with juju

three struggling relationships

while also trying to keep the family from going into bankruptcy

She's the smartest kid in her whole school

a boy who is also searching for his roots

telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb

from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem

this book has the power to inspire all children and families to be their best

Empress Taytu Betul

Pierce reckons with that tradition

This beautiful picture book adapted from the song's timeless lyrics follows the story of a brother and sister who always find a way to make each other smile

he challenges her to a game that tests even her no-holds-barred quest for adventure