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Family secrets run deep for Grace, a young girl growing up in Cape Town during the 1980s. Her family secrets spill over into adulthood, and threaten to ruin the respectable life she has built for herself.

When an old childhood friend emerges after disappearing a decade earlier during a clash with apartheid riot police in the Cape Flats, where South Africa’s coloured community makes its home, Grace’s memories of her childhood come rushing back, and she is confronted, once again, with the loss that has shaped her. She has to face up to the truth or continue to live a lie—but the choice is not straightforward. Unmaking Grace is an intimate portrayal of violence, both personal and political, and its legacy on one person’s life. It meditates on the long shadow cast by personal trauma, showing the inter-generational imprint of violence and loss on people’s lives.

In this intense drama of family life, old wounds and the search for redemption in the cracks of past experiences leads to the coming apart and the piecing together of self and the group of people we call family. 

When 16 year old Leo's mother vanishes, he is left with more responsibilities at home taking care of his younger siblings. Interrogation of his father over his missing mother leads nowhere. As the days pass, his unease grows and when he finds a mysterious untitled file on the family shared drive, his curiosity gets the better of him and he discovers it is his mother’s secret memoir. Needing to understand his mother’s disappearance, Leo begins to read the book, searching for clues.

Meanwhile, Leo’s life is complicated when Aaron, a handsome boy, shows up in the middle of the school year and is assigned as his study partner. Old stresses in his friend group begin to tear apart his long standing relationships while he wonders if Aaron reciprocates his growing attraction. As he reads his mother’s book, he begins to see her in a new light, propelling him to look for the lost side of his family that still lives in Spain potentially setting off a chain reaction of unintended consequences of old grudges and shady pasts.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

A CBC Spring 2024 Showcase Selection

No matter where she goes, or how big she grows, Wanjikũ knows her name.

Librarian Favorites: Third to Fifth Grade

In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Gikũyũ girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called Wanjikũ.

On the busy city streets of Nairobi, where she goes to school, she is called by her English name, Catherine. But at home with Wangarĩ, the maid who cooks and cares for her, she is again Wanjikũ.

All grown up in boarding school, Catherine is the leader of her class, surrounded by friends from different cultural backgrounds. But at night, when she gathers with her fellow Gikũyũ sisters to speak her mother tongue, she is Wanjikũ once more.

Gloriously illustrated, alive with the joie de vivre of girlhood, and based on the author's own beloved childhood memories, Wanjikũ, Child of Mine is an ode to the heritage that walks alongside us, and a love song for the sisters we make on the journey.

Selected as a 2019 Outstanding International Book by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)

Ntshingila's lyrically wrought North American debut is a slim yet satisfying novel sure to trigger a wide range of emotions."Kirkus, starred review

"It is a story about joy and hope and courage, and what it means to lift up others and be lifted oneself, and how one young girl found her voice in a world seemingly determined to take it away."Shelf Awareness, starred review

The terrible thing that steals 14-year-old Mvelo’s song leads to startling revelations and unexpected opportunities.

Life wasn’t always this hard for 14-year-old Mvelo. There were good times living with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. Now her mother is dying of AIDS and what happened to Mvelo is the elephant in the room, despite its growing presence in their small shack. In this Shakespeare-style comedy, the things that seem to be are only a façade and the things that are revealed hand Mvelo a golden opportunity to change her fate. We Kiss Them With Rain explores both humor and tragedy in this modern-day fairy tale set in a squatter camp outside of Durban, South Africa.

You know when I sit
You know when I stand
You know every move I make

God knows everything about you.
God delights in you and watches over you for good.

This powerful, poetic retelling of David’s beloved Psalm 139 encourages kids and adults alike in their spiritual journeys with an all-powerful, all-perceptive God.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Part of Niki Daly's Lolo series

Lolo's back for a whole new set of adventures in You're a Star, Lolo, the third book in Niki Daly's Lolo series for beginning readers. Whether it's turning her garden into a snail farm when snails eat up her precious tomato plant, or using her hair ribbons to save the day when a friend's car breaks down – there's a unique solution to every problem, and Lolo is going to find it!

These stories invite young readers into the life and adventures of fun-loving, clever, and curious Lolo, a young girl living in South Africa. Along with her mother and grandmother, Gogo, she can always find a way to make the best out of any situation— even when things don't go as planned.

In You're a Star, Lolo, join Lolo as she makes her mom an extra-special soup, goes on vacation with her Gogo, and even tracks down the scary Ghorra-Ghorra-Hoooaaah-Bwoooooo-Monster sound she keeps hearing at night!

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Part of Niki Daly's Lolo series

Lolo's back for a whole new set of adventures in You're a Star, Lolo, the third book in Niki Daly's Lolo series for beginning readers. Whether it's turning her garden into a snail farm when snails eat up her precious tomato plant, or using her hair ribbons to save the day when a friend's car breaks down – there's a unique solution to every problem, and Lolo is going to find it!

These stories invite young readers into the life and adventures of fun-loving, clever, and curious Lolo, a young girl living in South Africa. Along with her mother and grandmother, Gogo, she can always find a way to make the best out of any situation— even when things don't go as planned.

In You're a Star, Lolo, join Lolo as she makes her mom an extra-special soup, goes on vacation with her Gogo, and even tracks down the scary Ghorra-Ghorra-Hoooaaah-Bwoooooo-Monster sound she keeps hearing at night!

An aspiring teen journalist (whose curiosity is outshone only by her bravery and dedication) and an adventurer with one last wish on his bucket list team up to uncover the mystery behind “The Boy in the Shadows”– a long-forgotten prodigy of the successful authors Mr. and Mrs. Paradise. 

The unusual pair becomes an even stranger triad when the teen’s explorer uncle joins the quest, hoping to bring wisdom and experience into the wild exuberance of youthful adventure.

Mr. and Mrs. Paradise grew up in hard knock lives, each wounded by their past while also overcoming the odds to mold themselves into successful authors, lauded in the literary world and toasted by the elite. Finding enduring love in each other, the couple built a life around their child. “A genius” in the vein of their own lauded success, they proclaimed, shielding the boy from a childhood of pain and struggle, providing him every advantage they themselves had lacked. Years later, what had become of this child, the offspring of giants in their field, given every opportunity for success?

Young and Hungry is a modern parable of the triumphs and follies of parenthood, the motivations of becoming and being, and the wisdom of living a full spectrum life, each character an archetype found among our own peers and within ourselves.

• 2022 Shortlist, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
• Winner, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
• Winner, 2011 Herman Charles Bosman Award
• Winner, Sunday Times Fiction Prize
• Winner, The Sunday Times Literary Award

Sipho, a 17-year-old from the Umlazi township, drops out of high school and joins a car hijacking syndicate to make a name for himself and escape his family’s low-income life. Along with hijacking partners Musa and Vusi, Sipho learns the tricks of the dangerous trade and pushes deeper into the underbelly of Umlazi under the guidance of gang leader Sibani, while partying heavily and juggling different women nightly alongside his longtime girlfriend Nana.

Candid and unapologetic, Young Blood is the story of the intricate balance of circumstance and choice, swift gain and incredible loss, as Sipho finds out how far he can push his luck before the damage is irrevocable – and the consequences deadly. Both a red-hot crime novel of car heists, sex, and rival gangs and a coming of age story of a teenager navigating the costs of the fast life, Young Blood reveals the devastating violence and raw beauty of life in South Africa’s townships.

Ganador del Premio Honorífico Skipping Stones 2024

"¡Hola! Soy Epi Dermis, pero mis amigos me llaman ¡Piel!

¡Levanten la mano si sudan, se broncean, tienen comezón, tienen pelo o tienen pecas!

Últimamente me he sentido un poco sensible porque todos tienen algo que decir sobre mí. Pero la gente no siempre dice la verdad.

Mi color no me hace rápido, fuerte, inteligente ni aterrador. Solo quiero gritar: "¡Es solo piel, oye!"

"[Un] libro irresistible, brillante y perfectamente bien escrito que debe ser lectura obligatoria en todos los jardines infantiles y escuelas primarias de nuestro país." — Henry Louis Gates Jr

Un libro infantil ilustrado sobre la evolución del color de la piel, basado en más de 40 años de investigación por la experta antropóloga Dra. Nina Jablonski y la historiadora Dra. Holly Y. McGee, con un prólogo especial del celebrado crítico literario e historiador Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Conoce a Epi Dermis, ¡la guía peculiar e inteligente de tu hijo sobre el origen del color de la piel! Usando ciencia simple y actividades interactivas, Epi lleva a los lectores en una aventura a través de la historia humana para descubrir por qué la piel es el órgano que más trabaja en el cuerpo. Ya sea cómo la migración y el clima cambiaron la necesidad de melanina en nuestra piel, o por qué el sudor es el súper poder secreto de tu cuerpo, ¡Epi tiene toda la información! Y la usa para desafiar falsas narrativas sobre raza y dar a los niños los datos que necesitan para hacer lo mismo.

Ganador del Premio Honorífico Skipping Stones 2024

"¡Hola! Soy Epi Dermis, pero mis amigos me llaman ¡Piel!

¡Levanten la mano si sudan, se broncean, tienen comezón, tienen pelo o tienen pecas!

Últimamente me he sentido un poco sensible porque todos tienen algo que decir sobre mí. Pero la gente no siempre dice la verdad.

Mi color no me hace rápido, fuerte, inteligente ni aterrador. Solo quiero gritar: "¡Es solo piel, oye!"

"[Un] libro irresistible, brillante y perfectamente bien escrito que debe ser lectura obligatoria en todos los jardines infantiles y escuelas primarias de nuestro país." — Henry Louis Gates Jr

Un libro infantil ilustrado sobre la evolución del color de la piel, basado en más de 40 años de investigación por la experta antropóloga Dra. Nina Jablonski y la historiadora Dra. Holly Y. McGee, con un prólogo especial del celebrado crítico literario e historiador Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Conoce a Epi Dermis, ¡la guía peculiar e inteligente de tu hijo sobre el origen del color de la piel! Usando ciencia simple y actividades interactivas, Epi lleva a los lectores en una aventura a través de la historia humana para descubrir por qué la piel es el órgano que más trabaja en el cuerpo. Ya sea cómo la migración y el clima cambiaron la necesidad de melanina en nuestra piel, o por qué el sudor es el súper poder secreto de tu cuerpo, ¡Epi tiene toda la información! Y la usa para desafiar falsas narrativas sobre raza y dar a los niños los datos que necesitan para hacer lo mismo.