Baby Girl by Lenora Adams

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All I can say is that I never thought it would come to this. I never thought I would run away. For some reason I thought you, of all people, would see and know. Sheree has always been a tough girl, able to take care of herself. Then she finds herself in a situation where she can't. She needs … [Read more...]

Teenage Love Affair by Ni-Ni Simone

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Check it: I'm Zsa-Zsa. Some call me arrogant, but I call it confidence. You decide when you find out what I'm working with. First things first--I'm seventeen, but I'm grown and have been for a long time. I have my own ride, my mama doesn't clock my time, and my boyfriend, Ameen, is getting money … [Read more...]

Step To This by Nikki Carter

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Fifteen-year-old Gia Stokes knows exactly what she needs to make her life fantabulous: * Get her mother Gwendolyn to let her relax her hair * Find a boy to ask her out * Get on the Hi-Steppers dance squad Gia doesn't have the hair or the clothes, but she's got the moves and the attitude … [Read more...]

Myself and I by Earl Sewell

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Lately, Keysha feels like a magnet for trouble—especially boy trouble. Her last love interest turned out to be a major fraud, and her ex, Wesley, refuses to accept that they're finished. Swearing off relationships and concentrating on herself seems like her smartest move. Then Keysha meets her … [Read more...]

Until We Meet Again by Anne E. Schraff

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This summer was supposed to be different. With the school year over, Darcy Wills looked forward to the best time of her life. But her plans are shattered by a series of the unexpected events. First, horrible news threatens to rip her boyfriend Hakeem away. And then someone new enters her life, … [Read more...]

Jaded by Monica McKayhan

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This is so not how it was supposed to be… What Jade Morgan wants: for her parents to get back together. Instead her dad proposes to his new girlfriend, who has the nerve to ask Jade to be a bridesmaid. Like that’ll ever happen. Her new boyfriend, Terrence, thinks she should give her future … [Read more...]

HOOD RICHEST by Michelle Monay

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At only seventeen, Jayah Carter has everything a girl dreams of... but she wants more. Hood-bound to the bone and the envy of all the chicks the affluent daughter of Miami's infamous drug lord Jay Carter is no fool. Jayah knows her father's business could take him out at any time, so she comes up … [Read more...]

THE PLEDGE by Chandra Sparks Taylor

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If you really loved me, you'd... Raised in a strict household, sixteen-year-old Courtland Murphy never had a date. But that was before the guy of her every dream - basketball star Allen Benson - asked her. She's gone from never-been-kissed to dating the hottest guy in school. And now her new … [Read more...]

SPIN IT LIKE THAT by Chandra Sparks Taylor

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Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Richardson has a love for music. When She gets on the turntables, her gift for spinning and rhyming earn her admiration and respect. She's also talented academically, but her parents disapprove of their daughter's hobby, hoping that it's a phase she's going through. Still, … [Read more...]