Just Family

By Tonya Bolden

Ten-year-old Beryl is fairly content with her life in East Harlem in the 1960s, until she learns that her older sister is really her half-sister and worries that her family will begin to change.

Mama, I want to sing

By Vy Higginsen

In the late 1940s and early 1950s Doris Winter follows her dream to be a singer, eventually rising from church choir member to pop star.

Mama I Want to Sing Point

By Tonya Bolden, Vy Higginsen

And not afraid to dare

By Tonya Bolden

Biographical portraits of ten African-American women including Leontyne Price, Toni Morrison, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

And Not Afraid to Dare

By Tonya Bolden

33 Things Every Girl Should Know

By N A

Not Afraid to Dare

By Tonya Bolden

Rock of Ages

By Tonya Bolden, Tonya Xzo Bolden, Bolden

33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women s History

By Tonya Bolden

Rock of Ages

By Tonya Bolden

A poem celebrating the role of church in the lives and history of African Americans, from the time of slavery through the struggle for civil rights to the well-established churches of today.