Books with author J. B. Graham

When 13 year old Andy Mackpeace lights a mysterious incense stick, he is unexpectedly whisked off to 18th Century Boston to experience an event no history channel could ever replicate! With his grandmother's supernatural guidance, he returns safely home.Later, when he and his best friend Roger tempt fate and secretly meet to go on their own time travel adventure, they are interrupted by their nosy friend Miranda Roberts. Andy accidentally drops the stick, and all three are carried back to an antebellum plantation where they remain hopelessly trapped. Andy experiences first hand the true horror of hatred and prejudice when he must make a decision that will change his life. Friendships are tested, broken, and ultimately transformed as these three travelers use their 21st Century wits to battle a 19th Century world.

McNeeley the Mouse lives under the stairs in the Turley's house. All is well, except that the Turleys like to eat a lot and don't like to exercise. Each time they go up or down the stairs, the boards creak more than the last time, and McNeeley is afraid that the roof of his own little house will cave in one day. So, McNeeley and his cousins must devise a plan to save his house, and maybe even save the Turleys at the same time!

Born into an African American family a few years after the end of the Civil War, the woman who became known as Madam C. J. Walker entered a world where slavery was still a very raw wound in American society. Although she was orphaned at a young age, C. J. Walker quickly learned about the world around her and how to adapt. The children of sharecroppers, she and her sister worked in cotton fields until Walker married at the age of fourteen. Eventually, she settled in St. Louis, Missouri, near her brothers. There, she started her own hair-care company, which grew into an empire and took her around the world. This is the story of Walker's inspiring perseverance on her journey to entrepreneurial success, filled with highs and lows which culminated in her becoming one of the wealthiest women in the twentieth century.