Laban Carrick Hill

Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.

Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks the musical interludes between verses longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx,...

You must prove to the rest of the cowhands that you can work on a ranch too.

The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which a new toy store opens up just before Christmas but the toys seem unsafe and the staff seems strange.