When five-and-a-half-year-old Willie Joe Johnson arrives in Heaven after a traffic accident, he has trouble adjusting to being an angel until Brother Boomer and even the intimidating Sister Primm take him under their wings
Afrotina, an Afro-American Goldilocks, is reminded of her manners by Papa Bear and Mama Bear when they come home to find that she has broken Baby Bear's chair, eaten his soup, and slept in his bed.
Retells the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast in an African setting, as the merchant Ahmar takes a rose from the gardens of the fearsome, catlike Azor, the Beast, for his youngest daughter, Zemira
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(Winston-Derek Publishers, April 15, 1997)
R.J. is terrified of a gang of bullies in the neighborhood. While trying to avoid them after school one day, R.J. accidentally stumbles upon a secret garden filled with orchids...