Mighty Inside
Levine Querido, 2021
Entering high school in 1955 in the shadow of two superstar siblings, 13-year-old Melvin Robinson must find the inner might to speak—in spite of his stutter—as he becomes aware of the racism in his Pacific Northwest hometown.
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It
Delacorte Press / Random House, Inc., 2007
Biracial Brendan Buckley builds a secret friendship with the white grandpa he's never known to uncover the truth about where he’s been.
Brendan Buckley’s Sixth-Grade Experiment
Delacorte Press / Random House, Inc., 2012
Middle school means a whole new set of adventures (and more big questions) for science kid and Tae Kwon Do purple belt Brendan Buckley!
The Other Half of My Heart
Delacorte Press / Random House, Inc., 2010
The relationship between biracial twin sisters is tested when they go to the South to visit their Black grandmother and compete in a pageant for African-American girls.
Cleo Edison Oliver:
Playground Millionaire
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Inc., 2016
Illustrations by Jennifer L. Meyer
With her enterprising spirit and persuasion superpower, "kidpreneur" Cleopatra Edison Oliver, CEO, is determined to build a business empire, improve the world, and maybe find her birth family… all while she's in fifth grade.
Cleo Edison Oliver in
Persuasion Power
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Inc., 2017
Illustrations by Jennifer L. Meyer
Cleo works to persuade the glamorous, powerful Fortune A. Davies to endorse Cleo's latest enterprise and has the unexpected opportunity to meet one of her birth parents. Should she take it?
Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person
InterVarsity Press, 2002
A nonfiction book for mixed-race people that presents a message of hope and encouragement: We have a place in this world.