Pardon My FrenchieAshanti Wright is ecstatic over the success of her dog boarding business, Barkingham Palace. In fact, it has become so successful that Ashanti has plans to expand her empire with a doggie bake shop. There's just one problem, the building she's had her eye on has just been sold to the surly grandson of one of her favorite customers. Thaddeus Sims is not a dog person. He's barely a person's person. But when his grandmother is transferred to a senior

and a major curator who wants to launch her art career

Throughout

No one is prepared for this whiteout

When he and his best friends Zion and Aliyah decide to open it again

while Mary

he presents the perfect opportunity to check off the items on her list

" --Ava DuVernay

A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander

Nic Stone's high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of

But when the promposal goes epically wrong

that's the least of her worries

Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color