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Ziggy, Rico, Rashawn, and Jerome, four curious African-American kids, find themselves trapped in an Underground Railroad passageway under their school, with no way out but to travel its tunnels as escaped slaves did over one hundred years before.

After the neighborhood basketball court is vandalized, Ziggy and his friends decide to form a club called the Black Dinosaurs and build their clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard where they find a mysterious cache of buried bones.

When Julian, his little brother Huey, and their friend Gloria decide to be "crime busters, " they find themselves in one adventure after another.

After rescuing an orphaned deer, Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs club members decide to stage a neighborhood animal show to raise money for the local wildlife rescue center.

Ziggy, Jerome, Rico, and Rashawn look forward to using the two hundred dollars they are sure they will win in the school talent show to fix up their clubhouse--until they meet their biggest competition: a very talented little girl who needs the money more than they do.

"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past.

Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.

"A lifetime ago, every year Carole Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary.

"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers .

"Twelve-year-old twins Hayden and Jaden, and their older friends Keisha and Carlos, call themselves Snoops, Inc.

The Fleischman Middle School drama club is supposed to be putting on a play in the school auditorium, but strange noises have convinced many of the actors that the stage is haunted--so it is up to the four friends of Snoops, Inc.

Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.

"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past.

When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined to find out who murdered their friend.

"Azaleah loved her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.