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Mama and Daddy are heading out of town, which means Azaleah and her sisters get to spend the weekend at Auntie Sam's. The girls can't wait for their special weekend! Azaleah even decides to bake cookies to surprise her parents when they return. After all, as Mama says, "Cooking for someone is like giving them a gift."

Azaleah can't wait for her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C., especially when her teacher announces the chance to earn extra credit. But when Azaleah gets home, she quickly realizes extra credit isn't as easy as she thought. Azaleah's younger sister Tiana can't find Greenie, her stuffed animal, and she's sure he's been stolen. With Mama at the restaurant and Daddy at work on a big case, it seems Azaleah is the only one available to track down the stolen stuffie. Can Azaleah get to the bottom of the mystery in time to finish her extra credit?

When Lyn’s pilgrimage to the High Temple ends in disaster, she prays for her death. In a surprise twist of fate, however, she is tasked to escort the enigmatic youth Kora home and back. On their journey, Lyn questions whether she will do as her mother expects and become a nun or whether she’ll follow her deepest desires and choose a path of adventure.

A contemporary My Side of the Mountain, Stranded is the story of a wilderness-hungry Black girl from Manhattan whose journey in the Adirondack mountains becomes a nail-biting story of courage, independence, and survival.

When Abigale inherits her uncle's curiosity shop she is thrust into the world of the occult. Where strange rituals are performed and cursed antiquities change hands. In this, she finds an entity of untold power. A primeval being of aeons past shouting to be freed. An old tome acting as a latched door opened a crack, outlining a rite requiring exotic ingredients and acts of questionable morals. He promises an answer to her family's dark secret in exchange for her help.