She does a great job of portraying an appreciation for black culture without it being too overbearing, in my opinion. we recently got into her series dealing with 3 sisters out of Brooklyn and how they deal with reconnecting with their mother who abandoned them at a young age. The first, One Crazy Summer, takes place in Oakland and has a Black Panther Party backdrop, the second book, P.S. Be Eleven, is back in Brooklyn and is centered around the girls' everyday lives in the city. The 3rd installment, Crazy in Alabama, deals with the girls visiting relatives for the summer in rural Alabama and the stark differences between the city dwellers and the country relatives.

These books place an unapologetic appreciation for blackness as one of the central themes, but it's not beat over your head. it flows well within the context of the time period that the stories cover. my girl absolutely loved the books and learned so much about important cultural events of the period and it constantly reinforced a love of who we are as a separate culture and ethnic group.