Norma Jean Lutz

It takes a blind man to show Race the way... The moment Race heard the gunshots explode, he knew it was Vince. Somehow he just knew. Throwing the remote across the room, he leaped over the back of the ratty couch and flew down the dimly-lit stairs out into the hot August night. In this riveting teen novel, Race Paloma's world violently turns upside-down after his older brother, Vince, is murdered in a drive-by. Without Vince's strong leadership, their...

Lori froze. Maritza turned to look at her with perfectly made-up eyes. Her hair was fluffed high on top and cascaded down into long soft curls, as though a professional stylist had just put a finishing touch on it before pushing her on stage. Her vivid aqua blouse was neatly tucked into a pair of slim black jeans. Black boots completed the ensemble as neat as a pin. She must have grown six inches-tall and willowy. What had Amy said? A knockout? That...

Erik and Clarette Torsten are committed to each other and to God. After all, together they survived the race riots back in Tulsa. So surely they can face a little small-town prejudice in Erik's home town. But when a flood drives their small weekly newspaper out of business, Clarette is secretly relieved to have a reason for going back to New York City. After all, in New York people won't look down their noses at her for being a new Christian from...

The strangest thing about the nightmares was that Serena never knew the screams were hers until Aunt Loula woke her. In her dream, the screams were always Kris's. Always Kris's. Aunt Loula's husky voice would croon as she patted Serena, "There, there. It's all right. It's all a dream. Go back to sleep now." But it was never all right. And she almost never went back to sleep, for fear it would come again... The accident that injured her seven-year-old...

From Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars series comes the story of Britney Spears, who began her career in the 1990s update of the Mickey Mouse Club.

Profiles the Maryland slave who ran away and eventually returned to the South to help other slaves escape and spy for the Union army, and describes how the Underground Railroad helped bring slaves to freedom.

A biography of the famous Quaker who founded Pennsylvania and guaranteed religious freedom to all its settlers.

Traces the origins of the Republican Party, discussing key figures, conventions, platforms, and its organization.

Describes the life and times of clergyman and scholar, Increase Mather.