Yellow WifeBorn on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother's position as the estate's medicine woman and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She'd been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the

It affects and connects us all

Born on the Water provides a pathway for readers of all ages to reflect on the origins of American identity

a secret land of gods

she answers

Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years

When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion

Angie Thomas's searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circum-stances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence

their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders

brotherhood

Book two takes place after the Nashville sit-in campaign

With the moon beaming down rays of sheer delight

and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history"--