After her father dies, within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old Clover HIll learns, with her new mother, to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.

"In this cheerful story, a biracial girl celebrates what it means to be the perfect blend of her parents. From showing their different dance styles to comparing their favorite museum exhibits, this book perfectly illustrates how individuals join together to create a family." --

A newborn baby and the exciting confusion of Pet Day at school combine to make a very special day for Billy and Belle.

In spite of her upbringing, a young Japanese woman begins seeing an American soldier and finds that he is not like the foreigners her parents have taught her to avoid.

When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self. Staggerlee used to be Evangeline but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat...