New Releases by Nikki Grimes

The award-winning author of From a Child''s Heart retells the story of Mary, using everyday, down-to-earth language based on the Scriptural events. Through Nikki Grimes''s vibrant narrative--presented in a stunning, two-color format--Mary''s life is made startlingly fresh, deeply human, and inspiring.

Thirteen poem-prayers the author might have prayed as a child, expressing the hopes, fears, longings and ordinary, everyday concerns touching a child''s life.

Cinderella manages to get to the prince''s ball with the help of her fairy godmother and to inspire the prince''s undying love.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Malcolm X challenged America to face the truth of its prejudice toward its African American citizens. Born in poverty in Lansing Michigan, he fell into a life of petty crime, until he discovered the Black Muslim religion in jail. Eventually, he turned his life around, continued to seek teachers, and instructed others too. His influence continues to be felt around the world.

Poems expressing the hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows of growing up.