african american boys

Eleven-year-old Michael Wood becomes a superhero named Paperboy, whose superpower is standing-up to bullies, and tries to bring peace to his school playground.

Romeo Braxton's decision over which college football program to accept a scholarship from is put on the back burner after his older brother, Kwame, is released from prison and his absentee mother comes back into their lives and is beaten up by thugs, forcing him to figure out who really supports him and what he wants for his future.

An illustrated account of Jim Limber, a slave child who was taken in by the family of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and raised along with the Davis children until being kidnapped by Yankees.

Jake Benchley defends an African-American man who was accused of rape and subsequently lynched, and, along with the dead man's son, becomes the target of the men responsible for the crime.

A collection of poems from the viewpoint of a young boy living in the projects.

Laura Schroff was a successful sales executive living and working in Manhattan. Maurice was a homeless eleven-year-old panhandler. When he asked for change so he could eat something, Laura kept walking but then something made her turn around and go back. And she continued to go back, nearly every week for years and their unexpected friendship has today spanned nearly thirty years. Because of Laura's interest in him Maurice has grown up, married, gotten a college degree, and holds a job.

Abdul, having been left on his own after his mother died when he was nine, struggles to form an identity he can stand behind as he reaches adulthood and faces challenges along the way.

Two young men raised in the Chicago ghetto tell what life is like for the residents of the city's housing projects, drawing from hours of interviews they conducted for two National Public Radio documentaries, and provide an on-site account of the death of Eric Morse, a little boy dropped out of a fourteenth-floor window.

Terry and Laura Sheldon try to ease their grief over the drowning deaths of their twin daughters by adopting Albert, a ten-year-old African-American boy,whose history gives him little hope that this home will be his last, but while Terry and Laura struggle to keep their marriage together.in the face of infidelity, Albert meets an elderly neighbor who offers him friendship and gives him a sense of pride through stories of the buffalo soldiers of the old West.