If The Creek Don't RiseWhen Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, a headstrong woman who had married the most prominent black landowner in Nebraska and spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South. They reinvented themselves as ranch hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death or to an easier existence elsewhere, leaving Rita as Daisys

is a novel that every teen needs

but never put you to sleep in this meta bedtime tale in the vein of Goodnight Already

where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism

And it left the family fractured beyond repair

Just a Boy and At Risk – previously available as individual e-shorts

But he was murdered

Joe Walsh is as rock-ribbed a conservative as they come

Stanley uses his flat body in a surprising way to save the day

it's a perfect starter library for a young reader on the go

Learning love languages

truck spins

has chosen the beautiful Catherine Walsh for him