Lockdown

LockdownLockdown is the powerful tale of fourteen year old Reese Anderson, who has spent 22 months in a tiny cell at a progress center. Living in fear and isolation, Reese begins looking within himself to find a way out of the prison system. Acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers offers an honest story about finding a way to make it without getting lost in the shuffle. Told with compassion and truth, Lockdown is also a compelling first person read that "could

Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history

which his father runs in Seoul

And Prairie Park still holds the faded "haint" blue paint traditionally used on slave dwellings

it’s hard to keep it purely professional

On the topmost floor

along with her baby sister and her mother

Warrior on the Mound is about the experience of segregation

After a disastrous earthquake strikes his mother's birthplace of Puerto Rico

• 1987 Library of Congress Children's Books of the Year winner

Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war

and counter racism

Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations