9781593093983 | Strebor Books Intl, September 30, 2014, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: After the gruesome murder of his parents, a young boy plots to rule the streets of Detroit, but first he must contend with a corrupt mayor and a serial killer murdering drug dealers.

9781593093976 | Strebor Books Intl, May 22, 2012, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: After the gruesome murder of his parents, a young boy plots to rule the streets of Detroit, but first he must contend with a corrupt mayor and a serial killer murdering drug dealers.

9781601624857 | 1 edition (Urban Books, December 1, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Growing up in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Brooklyn isnâ?

9781555975272 | Original edition (Graywolf Pr, May 26, 2009), cover price $16.00

9781416562030 | Touchstone Books, April 14, 2009, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In this poignant tale of self-discovery, a young man struggles to survive the New York City housing projects in the face of familial, communal, and personal devastation.

9781416562221 | Touchstone Books, April 14, 2009, cover price $11.99

9780345506054 | Original edition (One World, February 24, 2009), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Even as a young teenager, Dupree “Numbers” Wallace had a keen mind for math.

9780971039704 | 3 edition (Conquering Books Llc, September 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Tyree, Omar

9781933491127 | Just Us Books Inc, September 5, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Best-selling author Omar Tyree makes his children's book debut with 12 Brown Boys, a collection of short stories for middle readers that focus on the lives of Black pre-teen boys.

9780374299422 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 17, 2006, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features such characters as a heathen at Jesus camp, a middle-aged mother yearning for her salsa-dancing days, and a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress.

9780374531461 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 22, 2008), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits―a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress.

9781887128773 | Soft Skull Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Shaka N’Zinga’s powerful memoir reveals the personal and political transformation of an African American youth growing up in the urban poverty of Baltimore.