Eve L. Ewing

Maya's nervous about fifth grade. She tries to keep calm by reminding herself she knows what to expect. But then she learns that this year won't be anything like the last. Her best friends are placed in a different class without her, and introverted Maya has trouble making new friends....

Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB, high school star athlete Colin Kaepernick has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted baseball pitcher. Everyone—from his parents to his teachers and coaches—is in agreement about his seemingly clear path. Except Colin feels differently.....

Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures - they're an integral part of their neighborhoods....

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event....