Lena is going to paint a self portrait and wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when Lena and her mother take a walk through their neighborhood, Lena sees that there are many different shades and tones of brown.

"It's twenty years since Eva, a biracial woman, was adopted as an eight-year-old, and Cherry and Carlton 'Sugar' McNeil have always been the only parents she's wanted or needed. But when she's dealt the double blow of Cherry's death and her own suspension from work, Eva decides it's time to discover who she was before she was theirs. Against Sugar's advice, Eva joins a DNA database, desperate for a match that will unlock her identity. And when a positive...

Even before the Civil War, a number of slaves escaped bondage and sought sanctuary in the American West. This includes the narrator of Storm Riders, who becomes enmeshed in the life of Waco Joseph Callahan, a.k.a. Brother Wolf, a.k.a. the Comanche Kid. Both the narrator and Waco are born of mixed parentage, which creates a bond between them. When Wacos brothers set out to kill him, they initiate a series of events that climaxes in a full-blown range...

Sixteen-year-old Summer, who has spent her entire life on the Virginia estate that harbors the Hudson family's secrets, must face adulthood before she is ready and discovers secrets of her own that may force her to leave the only home she has ever known.

August in Paris. This holiday with her professor parents should be a dream trip for budding art historian Khayyam Maquet-- American, French, Indian, Muslim. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life. Two hundred years before Khayyam's summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep...

Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost...

Trapped in the forsaken town of Dead River, where the townsfolk are out for his blood and for his gold, half-breed Yakima Henry, desperate to find a doctor to care for his wounded friend, must weather the oncoming storm, as well as a killer.

After breaking up, the colors must re-evaluate what it means to be a family.