New Releases by Sharon Bell Mathis

Traces the life of the blind musician emphasizing his strength and determination to overcome the many obstacles on his road to success.

In her diary Ebonee Rose records her passion for running, her desire to be like the great African American women athletes who have come before her, and her preparations for the All-City Meet.

Football poems deal with plays, practice, coaches, games, touchdowns, defense, injuries, cheerleaders, and championships.

A sixteen-year-old girl''s first celebration of Kwanza gives her a sense of the past and strength to deal with her troubled mother and her own blindness.

A sensitive story of a tragedy that haunts a black ghetto family.

Zettie hates the tiny basement apartment she and her mom have in Brooklyn. Then her mom asks Fawn and her mother to move in! There''s a gymnastics contest at the Rec. Center and first prize is $50, enough to get back home to South Carolina, but can she win the prize?

Michael''s love for his one-hundred-year-old great-great-aunt, who lives with his family, leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all of Aunt Dew''s old things.

As a young boy he fell in love with music, and as a man, the world fell in love with his music. Ray Charles and his soulful, passionate rhythms and melodies have been embraced around the world for decades.Now, in this beautiful new edition of an award-winning biography, readers can follow Charles from his boyhood, when he lost his sight and learned to read and write music in Braille, until the age of 40, when he had become a world-renowned jazz and blues musician packing auditoriums and stadiums.And in a new introduction and afterword, the author updates Charles''s life to the present. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A little girl helps her friend''s family fight for their rights when the landlord tries to evict them.

The daughter is hopeful, the son skeptical, when their mother returns home after years of absence.