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Herb Boyd talks about his book Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography and other things
Herb Boyd talks about his book Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography and other things Book Spotlights
Herb Boyd
Herb Boyd 0000000110710186 Herb Boyd Receives Social Justice Award Herb Boyd, born in 1938, is an award-winning author and journalist. He's written over 20 books and numerous articles, with notable wo...
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Herb Boyd 9780743293082 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). ...
Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen
Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen MULTIPLE Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen are renowned authors. Stein, captured during a book signing at Rizzoli Bookstore in 2013, collaborates with Bo...
Simeon Wright and Herb Boyd
Simeon Wright and Herb Boyd MULTIPLE Simeon Wright and Herb Boyd are renowned authors. Wright, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, witnessed the Emmett Till kidnap. Boyd, an award-winning jour...
Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd
Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd MULTIPLE Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd are renowned authors, influential in African-American literature and social activism. Madhubuti's poetry reflects racial issues, whi...
Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs
Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs MULTIPLE Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs are renowned authors known for their significant contributions in the field of literature and journalism. They have bo...
Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen
Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen MULTIPLE "Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to literature. Their works are deeply rooted in highlighting socio...
Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination Herb Boyd 9780062346629 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “As a native Detroiter, I’m proud of the education I received at home, at the public sch...
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History Herb Boyd 9781531514433 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, polit...
Valerie Boyd
Valerie Boyd 000000011658992X Valerie Boyd was a notable American author, journalist, and educator, celebrated for her contributions to African American literature. She's best known for her acclaimed...
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance James Baldwin 9781636811321 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in h...
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings Thumper Book Review It has not been said for a long time. I’m glad to be able to say, James Baldwin has a new book out! The new collection of es...
Black and White Airmen: Their True History
Black and White Airmen: Their True History John Fleischman 9780618562978 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasn’t.Jo...
Harlem Street Portraits
Harlem Street Portraits Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen 9780764344879 Fiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the hu...
James Baldwin
James Baldwin 0000000121446704 “No white critic can judge my work. I’d be a fool if I depended upon that judgement.” James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987), born in Harlem, NY, was a ren...
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays James Baldwin 9780807018651 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the real...
Watergate’s Forgotten Hero
Watergate’s Forgotten Hero Adam Henig 9781476684802 Nonfiction McFarland McFarland “Absorbing…compelling biography.”—Herb Boyd, author of Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Nearly eve...
Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It Herb Boyd 9780385492799 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House Autobiography of a People is an insig...
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story Nicholas Boggs 9780374178710 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals...
The Harlem Reader
The Harlem Reader Herb Boyd 9781400046812 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House There is no neighborhood in America as famous, infamous, and inspiring as Harlem. From its humble beginnings ...
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not? Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd 9780883784099 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Black Panther earns three Oscars. Since its inception Marvel Studios’ Bla...
Julia A. Boyd
Julia A. Boyd NONE Julia A. Boyd is a psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience, known for her empowering sister circles. She's the author of notable books on Black women's self-esteem and dep...
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays James Baldwin 9780807016947 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”—Toni Morrison Th...
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780593689714 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Celebrating the Centenary of ...
The Gospel according to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity
The Gospel according to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity Greg Garrett 9781626985391 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books James Baldwin’s writing of...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin Hilton Als 9781954947092 Nonfiction Dancing Foxes Press/Brooklyn Museum Dancing Foxes Press Baldwin’s life and legacy as remembered by a panthe...
Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey
Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey Adam Henig 9781500751494 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC ‘Few Americans are aware that Alex Haley has two books among the most popular in Americ...
David T. Boyd
David T. Boyd NONE Chicago-born author David T. Boyd discovered his passion for writing early, penning his first story at nine. Inspired by authors like Stephen King, he developed his short story int...
Lewis V. Baldwin
Lewis V. Baldwin 0000000109176289 Born in 1949, Lewis V. Baldwin is a civil rights activist and professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University. Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., ...
The James Baldwin Collection
The James Baldwin Collection James Baldwin 9781598537932 Nonfiction Library of America Library of America For the first time in a collector’s boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America ...
Sylvester Boyd Jr.
Sylvester Boyd Jr. NONE Sylvester Boyd Jr., a Chicago native, is an accomplished author, background actor, and motivational speaker with a rich background in geography, history, and business. Known f...
Encounter on the Seine: Essays
Encounter on the Seine: Essays James Baldwin 9780807018675 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harle...
Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd
Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd MULTIPLE Alice Walker is a renowned American author, with her books translated into 25+ languages and over 15 million copies sold. Valerie Boyd, an arts editor at The At...
Martin Luther King Jr.: Biography Collection
Martin Luther King Jr.: Biography Collection Herb Boyd 9781424005468 Nonfiction Cengage Learning Cengage Learning, Inc. This latest addition to The Heinle Reading Library teaches students the life s...
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film James Baldwin and Raoul Peck 9780525434696 Nonfiction Vintage International Series Penguin Random House Learn about the Oscar-Nominated...
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin Michelle Meadows 9780063273474 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Celebrate James Baldwin’s one-hundredth birthday anniversary with ...
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin James Baldwin 9780870236778 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press This book is a transcription ...
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin 9780807006115 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Am...
Neil Baldwin
Neil Baldwin 0000000108910963 Dr. Neil Baldwin, born in New York City, is a renowned author and scholar with a Ph.D. in Modern American Poetry. He has authored various poetry, textbooks, and biograph...
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC Karen Chilton 9780472034475 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press "“Karen C...
Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal James Baldwin 9780807006429 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts ...
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780525575320 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the...
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde Rima Vesely-Flad 9798889842583 Nonfiction North Atlantic Books North Atlantic Books Black, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts...
You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge
You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge Jamie McGhee and Adam Hollowell 9781506478944 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media After a speech at UMass Amherst on February 28, 1984, Ja...
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer Quartez Harris 9780316483933 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Discover the story of young James Baldwin in this ode to th...
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
The Evidence of Things Not Seen James Baldwin 9781250844897 Nonfiction Holt McDougal Macmillan Publishers Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in...
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds James Baldwin and Toni Morrison 9781883011529 Non...
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story Robert Fleming Book Review Long before I met James Baldwin’s friend Vertamae Grosvenor, I was a preteen Black boy who had read the writer’s bold novel Go Tell It on ...
Mystery, Malevolence & Murder
Mystery, Malevolence & Murder David T. Boyd 9780595387953 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions From the creator of Falling Down, mystery writer David T. Boyd returns with his latest work, Mystery, Malev...
Stephen Bentley
Stephen Bentley NONE Stephen Bentley, born in 1954, is a renowned cartoonist, best known for creating 'Herb and Jamaal'. A South Central LA native, Bentley moved to Pasadena in the late '60s, graduat...
Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911
Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911 Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814324899 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Frances E. W. ...
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood James Baldwin 9781478000044 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books “a child’s story for adults” Illustrated by Yoran Cazac. Edi...
Jeff Boyd
Jeff Boyd 0000000083199297 Jeff Boyd, a former Chicago teacher and Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, is a recipient of the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently resides in Brooklyn, ...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
Politics and Poetics: The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper
Politics and Poetics: The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814353080 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Frances E. W. Harper was a pioneering figur...
Melba Joyce Boyd
Melba Joyce Boyd 0000000030185254 Melba Joyce Boyd, a renowned poet and academic, has authored nine poetry books and received various awards. She is a Distinguished University Professor at Wayne Stat...
C. Boyd James
C. Boyd James NONE C. Boyd James is an intellectual historian, educated in the University of Southern Caribbean and UCLA. With teaching stints at UC Irvine, Claremont College, Charles R. Drew-UCLA Sc...
R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen James Baldwin 9780805039399 Nonfiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers One of America’s most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for th...
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688977 Fiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House A deluxe edition of James Baldwin’s haunting coming-of-age story, ...
Todd Steven Burroughs
Todd Steven Burroughs 0000000140773292 Todd Steven Burroughs is a journalist, historian, and author with a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Maryland. He has co-authored and contributed t...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100 Roberto Carlos Garcia mosaic44 Nonfiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine I first came to James Baldwin’s work by reading his...
The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964
The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964 Herb Boyd 9780883783511 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Read Press Release from Third World Press Announcing Landmark Publication of This Book The h...
Shaq Talks Back
Shaq Talks Back Shaquille O’Neal 9780312278458 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers It’s rare to discover a candid sports autobiography—even rarer when the author is one of the most reco...
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excerpt "Some Technicolor Bazaar" How Harlem Became the Center of the Universe Harlem!&helli...
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years Kadija Sesay and Cheryl Robson 9781913641412 Nonfiction Aurora Metro Books Aurora Metro Publications Encounters with James Baldwin celebrates the c...
James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
James Baldwin and Raoul Peck MULTIPLE James Baldwin and Raoul Peck are influential figures in literature and filmmaking respectively. Baldwin, a renowned novelist and essayist, and Peck, an acclaimed...
From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist
From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist Herb Boyd Book Review Like many red-blooded American boys, Bob Avakian’s early years were consumed wi...
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till Simeon Wright and Herb Boyd 9781569768198 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press No modern tragedy has had a greate...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing Fred Beauford 21551758v1 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2010 “The Wo...
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen 9780345383174 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[AN] OUTSTANDING COLLECTION…The powerful ...
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs 9781450810302 Fiction West Side Publishing West Side Publishing Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today explores the story of the Afri...
African History For Beginners
African History For Beginners Herb Boyd 9781934389188 Nonfiction For Beginners For Beginners African History For Beginners explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory ...
Elombe Brath Selected Writings and Essays
Elombe Brath Selected Writings and Essays Herb Boyd 9780692052075 Nonfiction The Elombe Brath Foundation The Elombe Brath Foundation
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Heroes of America)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Heroes of America) Herb Boyd 9781596792586 Nonfiction ABDO Publishing Company ABDO Publishing Company
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780375701870 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House “Mountain,” Baldwin said, “is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.” Go ...
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes James Baldwin 9780807026472 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In these troubling times when readers are seeking hope and pu...
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning Grant Harper Reid 9781976572838 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Harlem Bible—-In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant...
There Is a Balm in Gilead
There Is a Balm in Gilead Lewis V. Baldwin 9780800624576 Nonfiction Augsburg Fortress 1517 Media The sources of Martin Luther King, Jr., ’s phenomenal and prophetic impact on life in America and beyon...
The Top 7 American Writers of the 20th Century
The Top 7 American Writers of the 20th Century Troy Johnson Article [caption id="attachment_948" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="AALBC.com Founder, Troy Johnson on James Baldwin"][/caption] ...
The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin Michele Elam 9781107618183 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin offers fresh insight int...
Bree Boyd Is a Legend
Bree Boyd Is a Legend Leah Johnson 9781368090100 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide From award-winning YA author Leah Johnson comes the sequel to her stunning middle grade debut, Elli...
Africans in Harlem
Africans in Harlem Boukary Sawadogo 9780823299126 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem. ...
John Baldwin West
John Baldwin West NONE Dr. John Baldwin West was a renowned African American pulp detective fiction writer in the 1950s. He authored six novels featuring private investigator Rocky Steele, with most ...
Nola and Baldwin
Nola and Baldwin Donna Hill 9780063443389 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Inspired by Their Eyes Were Watching God for a new generation longing for a romantic finale, Nola and Baldwin is a sweeping hist...
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688984 Fiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House A stunning edition of James Baldwin’s timeless novel, with a new i...
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Amy J. Elias 9781478030058 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Over the course of a thirty-eight-year f...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd 9781476773155 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-win...
James Baldwin and Randall Kenan
James Baldwin and Randall Kenan MULTIPLE James Baldwin and Randall Kenan are influential authors known for their contributions to literature, exploring themes of race, sexuality, and social issues. T...
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison MULTIPLE James Baldwin and Toni Morrison are influential authors known for their profound works on racial and social issues. Both have significantly contributed to Ame...
Beautifully Organized Estate Planner: The Ultimate Estate Planning Organizer for End of Life
Beautifully Organized Estate Planner: The Ultimate Estate Planning Organizer for End of Life Nikki Boyd 9781963183344 Nonfiction Paige Tate & Co Penguin Random House The ultimate estate and funeral pl...
Beautifully Organized: A Guide to Function and Style in Your Home
Beautifully Organized: A Guide to Function and Style in Your Home Nikki Boyd 9781944515683 Nonfiction Paige Tate & Co Penguin Random House Create an organized, beautiful, and welcoming home with profe...
Nikki Boyd
Nikki Boyd NONE Nikki Boyd is a professional organizer and founder of athomewithnikki.com where she helps bring beautiful order in homes around the world with her business, blog and YouTube channel....
Death Dance of a Butterfly
Death Dance of a Butterfly Melba Joyce Boyd 9780615312903 Poetry Past Tents Press Past Tents Press Poetry. African American Studies. Melba Joyce Boyd’s latest poetry offering is an insightful examinat...
Claude McKay
Claude McKay 0000000108625951 Festus Claudius McKay, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Jamaica and authored influential works including the poem “If We Must Die” and novel “Home to ...
Shuri: Black Panther Novel (Marvel), Volume 1
Shuri: Black Panther Novel (Marvel), Volume 1 Nic Stone 9781338585476 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper middle grade series...