Lynne Thigpen

Set thirty years in the future, a young woman suffering from hyperempathy, to feel others' pain as well as her own, makes a dangerous journey north from Southern California.

A family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events and discoveries of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

Biography of the African American labor leader, journalist, and civil rights activist, A. Philip Randolph. Randolph won the first national labor agreement for a black union, The Sleeping Car porters. His threat of a protest march on Washington forced President Roosevelt to ban segregation in the federal government and defense industries at the onset of WWII and again he forced Truman to integrate the military. Finally with the 1963 March on Washington,...

This distinguished sequel to the Newbery Award-winning book Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry was nominated for a National Book Award and recognized as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. In her series of books about the Logan family, Taylor draws a stirring portrait of the history of black Americans—and the small successes that led to the great Civil Rights movement of the fifties and sixties. Life in the South was turbulent and frightening

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