Long Division

Long Division

Author: Kiese Laymon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1982174838

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Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan. City’s two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother’s house, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance. Brilliantly “skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism” (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike “smart, funny, and sharp” (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history “that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves” (The Wall Street Journal).


Lily's Cat Mask

Lily's Cat Mask

Author: Julie Fortenberry

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0425287998

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Lily likes to wear the cat mask that her father bought for her, but she isn't allowed to wear it in school until her class has a costume party, where she makes a new friend.


Old Hippies Never Die

Old Hippies Never Die

Author: Psychic Deborah Mills

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-08-04

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0359832288

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a historical novel of a family saga surrounding events and eras of the "Hippie" movements, peace movements and civil rights. 1960s and 1970s are highlighted.


The Complete Emily the Strange: All Things Strange

The Complete Emily the Strange: All Things Strange

Author: Rob Reger

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1506722016

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Emily the Strange is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl--she's got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats, and famous friends in very odd places! She's got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you're invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon.


Baker Cat

Baker Cat

Author: Posy Simmonds

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 009945596X

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A humorous story about a baker cat and his mice friends.