The Year We Learned to Fly Cover:Hardcover Her buoyant prose is perfectly

Her buoyant prose is perfectly matched by Sara Palacios' mixed media illustrations

is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families

a man who throws a living funeral for his dying brother

Acclaimed writer Alice Faye Duncan tells the story of poet Gwendolyn Brooks

Inspired by the activism of Rosa Parks

The Year We Learned to Fly Cover:Hardcover Her buoyant prose is perfectlyJacqueline Woodson and Rafael Lpez's highly anticipated companion to their #1 New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence. On a dreary, stuck inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmothers advice: Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing. Somebody somewhere at some point was just