Leah T. Williams

Maya, Kendra, and Destiny thought their day off from school would be all fun and freedom. They had no idea history had other plans. Maya Johnson has one plan for October 11th, Black Girls Day Off. She and her best friends Kendra and Destiny are going to ditch school, explore Orlando’s Black...

Some homes you carry in your suitcase. Others, you leave buried under a guava tree. In this moving novel-in-verse, Mina has just uprooted her life in St. Kitts to start over in Orlando—a place of strange food, strange people, and a silence that stretches between her and the world. Back home...

Seventeen-year-old Kadeem Johnson is out of chances. Another fight. Another suspension. But this time, his mother isn’t just grounding him—she’s putting him on a plane. Now, he’s stuck in St. Kitts, an island he barely knows, with a grandfather he’s met but never truly understood. No...

"Before Kadeem’s story in Neither Out Far Nor In Deep, there was Gwen…" In Sweet Like Sugar Cane, Leah T. Williams brings listeners into the heart of St. Kitts, where sugarcane fields whisper secrets and a young woman searches for herself among tradition, love, and sacrifice. Gwendolyn...