Fast PitchShenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great uncle Jack reveals that a career ending and family name ruining crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past and fast before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever

especially her long-held desire to learn to read

outspoken and opinionated girls

to make a better life for the family--and when she was in kindergarten

Eva and Shane reconnect

Open Water is at once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity that asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body

No matter how hard she strives to do right

After failing to come into her powers

you are loved

Go camping

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say

Ryan Hart loves her family and friends

She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half Acre