Tonya Duncan Ellis

A moving picture book about the history of Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas—and the origins of Juneteenth.

Only losers don't have cell phones. That's what Sophie thinks at the beginning of this chapter book about fitting in. She feels like an outsider because she's the only one in her class without a cell phone, and her crush, new kid Toby Johnson, has been calling her best friend Chloe....

If there's one thing 10-year-old Texan Sophie Washington is good at, it's spelling. Her parents want her to compete in the Xavier Academy spelling bee, but Sophie wishes they would buzz off. That's until her irritating classmate, Nathan Jones, challenges her....

There's nothing worse than being a tattletale. That's what 10-year-old Sophie Washington thinks until she runs into Lanie Mitchell, a new girl at school. Lanie pushes Sophie and her friends around at their lockers, and even takes their lunch money....