Obioma (hardcover)

Obioma (hardcover)8 year old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her the girl with the wheelchair. Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!

once a promising soldier

she must turn to the blood relatives she’s never known

and funk were becoming part of the mainstream

he was also one of the first to observe and take note of the indigenous peoples of the two islands

she must deal with her broken heart

toe-tapping tune “Raining Tacos” from YouTube sensation Parry Gripp

Will the ends justify the means for Petey

Without one

A first-rate author boldly at play

Lies have been told

This book examines almost two hundred years of race and ethnic relations and white-on- black racism in Dubuque

completely revolutionizing the social contract between Americans and their federal government