A Stone in My Hand

Almost to Freedom

Right as Rain

Swing it, Sunny

Becoming Brianna: Emmie & Friends

Touching Snow

Ways to Grow Love: Ryan Hart

Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family

Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson’s life turns upside down the day her mother’s boyfriend holds up a convenience store, and her mother is wrongly imprisoned for assisting with the crime. Ruby and her pet pig, Bunny, find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is a nun who lives on a peach orchard called Paradise, and had turned away from their family long ago. With a little patience, she and Ruby begin to get along―but Eleanor has secrets of her own, secrets that might mean more hard times for Ruby.

Ruby believes that she's the only one who can find a way to help heal her loved ones, save her mother, and bring her family back together again. But being in a family means that everyone has to work together to support each other, and being home doesn't always mean going back to where you came from.

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A Stone in My Hand

Cathryn Clinton, 2002

Almost to Freedom

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Colin Bootman, 2003

Right as Rain

Lindsey Stoddard, 2019

Swing it, Sunny

Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm, 2017

Becoming Brianna: Emmie & Friends

Terri Libenson, 2020

Touching Snow

M. Sindy Felin, 2007

Ways to Grow Love: Ryan Hart

Renée Watson, Niña Mata, 2021

Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family

Kimberly Willis Holt, Kate Reading, 2006