What if your voice could change everything? A Duet for Home is a powerful, music-filled story of friendship, justice, and speaking up—no matter how young or unheard you feel.
Featuring a poverty-stricken boy who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him. Joe Oak is used to living on unsteady ground. His mom can’t be depended on as she never stays around long once she gets “the itch,” and now he and his beloved grandmother find themselves without a home.
Cecil Hall and his family have just moved from Florida to Massachusetts, near Boston. Cecil is anxious about making friends because he doesn’t know where he’ll fit in. His older sister, Leah, thinks he should befriend the other black kids at his new school, but Cecil isn’t sure how he’d go about doing that.
One girl. Thirteen lives hidden above her ceiling. In Nazi-occupied Poland, Stefania’s courage turns an ordinary attic into a sanctuary. The Light in Hidden Places is a powerful true story of resistance, sacrifice, and quiet heroism.