Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse
So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci’s school-assigned Sunshine Buddy
Sexually and physically abused by her father
with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities
Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies
Shrines of Gaiety Diaz Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been