Mama Day Young Adult Fiction African American & Black Romance - Contemporary Social Themes - Friendship the drive and the passion

the drive and the passion and the hope never fully extinguish—because just having the dream is the start you need

“How you’re choosing to set yourself up for success is between you and the person looking back at you in the mirror

In the hopes of earning enough money to get their own place

she enters the Thieves’ Gambit

empowering picture book debut

Mama Day Young Adult Fiction African American & Black Romance - Contemporary Social Themes - Friendship the drive and the passionA powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement a big, strong, admirable novel (New York Times Book Review). On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces.