Joy Jones

• Nov-2024

A boy's creativity and self—confidence challenge and inspire his teacher.What do you see outside your window? If you're like Robert, you'll see that the sky isn't always blue. Robert has an artist's eye and an independent mind who knows what he ...

• Sep-2020

Black Caucus of the American Library Association BCALA, 2020 Best of the Best BooklistA heartwarming story about finding your place, in the ropes and out.When eleven-year-old Jayla finds out that her mother used to be a Double Dutch champion, she's s...

• Sep-2017

Who is Billy Love? Many people are asking this question, starting with Billy himself.In this historically fictitious novel, Billy's long life of rollicking adventures, hard-gained accomplishments, and painful challenges didn’t provide him the answe...

• Aug-2016

A world decimated by virus,A crime lord’s daughter holds the key.Can she discover it in time?

Meet the crime lord of the future -- she’s five foot five, wears an evening gown, has computerized reflexes and carries a Glock. Her soldados def...

• Mar-2016

Edna Milton never planned to become a madam, but life dealt her some devilishly rough blows beginning at an early age. With very little education to sustain her, she elected to survive the only way she knew how: exchanging pleasure for hard cash, and...

• May-2009

LEISA JENNINGS, Student Teacher Coordinator for Northern Arizona University, is tormented by the three taboos she is breaking Yaro Bomou, Fullbright Scholarship graduate student, is a married man, a younger man and a black man from Africa. Ultimately...

• Sep-1999

Noni is scared walking home with Grandaddy at night in the city. But Grandaddy knows just how to help. He tells her the story of another night, down home in Alabama, when he himself got the frights. It was the very some night that Grandaddy first met...