Nikki Grimes

A little girl describes a typical Sunday from the moment her mother wakes her up through the different elements of the worship service in church.

Recounts, in a series of poems and letters, Danitra's summer at her aunt's house in the country and her best friend Zuri's summer at home in town.

A collection of more than twenty poems speaking of different kinds of love.

A biography of the woman who became the first licensed Afro-American pilot.

A collection of poems about an African-American girl growing up in New York.

A retelling of the Biblical creation story with Jesus helping God with the creation of all the world, the animals and of Adam and Eve, and finally resting on the seventh day.

A beloved and very sleepy little boy resists his mother's efforts to put him to bed.

Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction. A teen activist wrestles with protest-related anxiety and PTSD. A socially anxious vampire learns he has to save his town by (gulp) working with people. As part of her teshuvah, a girl writes letters to the ex-boyfriend she still loves, revealing that her struggle with angry outbursts is related to PMDD....