Derrick D. Barnes

Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Crown

When Ruby Booker starts third grade at Hope Road Academy, the same school her three illustrious older brothers attend, she tries hard to make an impression of her own.

Brand New School, Brave New Ruby

Ruby and the Booker Boys

When his own insecurity causes a rift with his girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Diego decides to become a relationship e-columnist under a secret name in order to win back Roxy's heart by saying all the right things undercover that he couldn't seem to say inp

The Making of Dr. Truelove

Look out, Ro! Ruby's hosting a big pink slumber party!

The Slumber Party Payback

Eight-year-old ultra-fabulous Ruby Marigold Booker returns in this reissue of the Ruby and the Booker Boys series by Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor author Derrick Barnes!

Derrick D. Barnes

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