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|  | Belle Teal by Ann M. Martin
In this novel set in the American South during the Civil Rights era, a white girl named Belle Teal gets involved with the integration movement at her school. To further complicate matters, Belle must also deal with the fact that her grandmother's memory is failing. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly. AUTHOR: Ann M. Martin
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Bing Bang Boing by Douglas Florian
A collection of humorous poetry and pen-and-ink line drawings. Subjects include smelly socks, elephants' trunks, and eating beetles for breakfast. AUTHOR: Douglas Florian
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
A young black man in Harlem begins to confront the legacy of anger and guilt he has inherited from his family. The story also explores the ways in which racial oppression has shaped the life of the family and the ways in which they try to use religion to establish order amid the chaos created by racism and sex. James Baldwin's first major novel is based loosely on his own background. AUTHOR: James Baldwin
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch by Marshall M. Moyer
Description not available.Widowed at the age of thirty-three, farm wife Lucy Hatch returns to her small Texas hometown, where through a series of misadventures, she works through her heartache and opens herself up to new love with the assistance of Ash Farrell. AUTHOR: Marshall M. Moyer
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | In the Hat by Dannie Martin
A novel by ex-convict Dannie Martin about a pimp and bank robber named Vernon Coy. A gang left over from his old prison days is out to kill him, and only his brother Weldon knows what's going on. But Weldon is in prison himself, serving a life senten... AUTHOR: Dannie Martin
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | What's the Girl Worth by Christina Fitzpatrick
Catherine, who is working her way through college in Boston as a cocktail waitress, gets to spend a summer in Madrid as an intern in a public relations firm. When her alcoholic father shows up--the man who, when Catherine was little, brutally beat her mother and then disappeared from their lives--the two engage in a series of semi-drunken encounters in the local bars, during which Catherine manages to reevaluate her life and modify her destructively negative attitude toward men. AUTHOR: Christina Fitzpatrick
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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