Books with author Rosa Guy

When his mother goes off to work one Saturday, ten-year-old Paris and two friends spend the day on the streets of New York having fun and some hair-raising adventures too

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Harlem teenager Imamu Jones, repainting his mother's apartment, hoping to help her overcome her alcoholism, is troubled as he begins to suspect one of his friends may be guilty of a series of burglaries and other crimes.

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Billy's parents try to plan his life for him, including his choice of friends, but he has ideas of his own

Having lived in her older sister's shadow all her life, Mary Abbot comes into the spotlight the summer she turns 18.

This story tells of a poor peasant girl's impossible love for a rich city boy, and the disharmony of their two worlds

Billy's parents have always decided what is right for him, but when new neighbors move in next door, he begins to demonstrate that he has a mind of his own. By the author of My Love, My Love.

In a series of letters to his parents and friends, twelve-year-old Carl relates his anger and confusion as well as his gradual change of heart about being sent to a small Southern town to live with his grandmother

Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend.

In a realistic treatment of violence, racism, and the American legal system, a Harlem-born West Indian becomes the principal suspect when the youngest daughter of his foster family disappears and is presumed murdered