Precious and the Boo Hag
by Patricia C. McKissack | 
Mirandy and Brother Wind
by Patricia C. McKissack | 
Flossie and the Fox
by Patricia C. McKissack | 
The Other Side
by Jacqueline Woodson | 
Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp
by Mercer Mayer | 
Chicken Sunday
by Patricia Polacco | 
Please, Baby, Please
by Spike Lee | 
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
by Crystal Hubbard | 
Knock Knock
by Daniel Beaty | 
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
by Derrick Barnes | 
The Paperboy
by Dav Pilkey | 
Uncle Jed's Barbershop
by Margaree King Mitchell | 
Just the Two of Us
by Will Smith | 
This Is the Rope
by Jacqueline Woodson | 
In My Momma's Kitchen
by Jerdine Nolen | 
Grandpa's Face
by Eloise Greenfield | 
Just Like Josh Gibson
by Angela Johnson | 
Thunder Rose
by Jerdine Nolen | 
Honey Baby Sugar Child
by Alice Faye Duncan | 
Beautiful Blackbird
by Ashley Bryan |
Little David Earl always knows what day of the week it is. He can tell by the clean, snappy-fresh apron Ma Dear is wearing -- a different color for every day. Monday means washing, with Ma Dear scrubbing at her tub in a blue apron. Tuesday is ironing, in a sunshine yellow apron that brightens Ma's spirits. And so it goes until Sunday, when Ma Dear doesn't have to wear an apron and they can set aside some special no-work time, just for themselves. In their first collaboration, Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack and award-winninng illustrator Floyd Cooper lovingly recreate a slice of turn-of-the-century Southern life as it was for a single African-American mother and her son.