When My Cousins Come to TownEvery summer a young girl looks forward to her cousins coming to town. All the cousins have nicknames for themselves, and this summer the young girl is determined to earn her own nickname as well.

Brooklyn pride

it would seem

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal

If Dominican were a color

and a child named Sia are especially poignant

then must face an evil determined to steal everything from her

Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black

their grandmother tells them

the civil rights movement

American Street is an evocative and -powerful coming-of-age story

As a Professor of English and Race Studies

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