Some days Maya glows... Maya feels a warm glow when she's with the people she loves and when she sees good things happening in her neighborhood. She feels a different kind of glow when she overhears her family worrying about bills or sees her favorite cousin stopped by police. Sometimes that glowing feels like too much to carry. But then the local librarian gives Maya a stack of books about those who felt the same glowing light. Black women throughout...

Winter approaches, and there's much to do if Pina's family want to be prepared: hunting, fishing, gathering, and more. Now, Pina must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping--the same mountain where his two older brothers disappeared. As he leaves, Pina reassures his parents that he will not succumb to the same fate as his brothers. He will return. But when he reaches the mountaintop, he is confronted by a terrifying eagle god named...