Muhammad Life

How are you? In your lifetime, you are going to be asked this a few thousand times. Or at least it seems like you are. The problem is when a question becomes so common it tends to carry less meaning. We answer, “Fine” without thinking, an automatic response much like saying “Hello.” But are you fine? Really?

Makena Matthews and her family have just moved to Springhill, Georgia to start a new chapter in their lives. She is super excited about starting her new school. Makena is an exceptionally bright girl with an extreme love for people. Her late grandmother Azul always told her how powerful it is to have a positive mindset no matter what and how important it is to use it to help those around her.

In addition to penning acclaimed poetry and plays, Coretta Scott King Honor recipient Shelia P. Moses wrote the novels The Legend of Buddy Bush and The Return of Buddy Bush. Humor and pathos abound in this moving tale of a wide-eyed African-American boy striving to understand his place in his family and their rural North Carolina town.