SulweWhen five year old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.

to help fix a PR fiasco involving a racially tone-deaf campaign

and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa

So slow down and really look and listen

Just Us Books continues its mission grounded in the same belief that helped launch the company: Good books make a difference

a moving truck arrives next door

he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors

and hard work

Years later

and a man who steals her heart and helps her to see herself in a new light

Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted

she also begins to wrestle with her past--her mother's struggle with addiction

And then she meets Eric