Jarell has never quite known where he belongs. He's ignored at home and teased at school for wanting to draw instead of playing sports with the other boys. The only place he's ever felt truly at ease is his local barbershop where the owner hangs Jarell's art up on the walls. When Jarell discovers a hidden portal in the barbershop, he's transported to a magical world that's unlike anything he's seen before. But it's not just the powerful gods and dangerous...

Sixteen-year-old Jimmy, on probation for assault, talks about life with three old men in a Harlem barbershop and hears about the tools he can use to get what he wants.

"Spend Saturday morning at the barbershop in this upbeat celebration of the spaces and places that bring communities together"--

"Beau Petty has been searching his whole life. Searching for a place that fills all the empty spaces in him. Searching for a way to tame the restlessness. Searching for answers to the secret he's never stopped trying to solve. What he wasn't searching for was a woman to claim all of him, but when Cora Silvera walks back into his life, he's ready to search out all the ways he can make her his. Cora has spent her life as the family nurturer, taking...

Isaac wants to grow a beard, just like his dad, who always seems to be the coolest person in the barbershop, but after trying for weeks with no success, he discovers there are other ways to imitate his father's coolness.

The 1910 Haxford Spring Fair turns deadly when a balloonist plummets to the earth. Unraveling this web of intrigue will require the skills of Haxford's brilliant Chief Inspector Pignon Scorbion.

When their barbershop, the Buzz, is "tagged", Bo and his friends help an artist turn the graffiti into a beautiful street art mural.

"Jarell has accepted his destiny as the savior of Ulfrika. But a powerful god will stop at nothing to banish Jarell from the kingdom forever"--

The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream on their foreheads, and a slow, steady cut, they become royalty. That crisp yet subtle line makes boys sharper, more visible, more aware of every great thing that could happen to them when they look good: lesser grades turn into A's; girls take notice; even a mother's hug gets a little tighter....

On his way to get a haircut, Marcus is dismayed by the bad things he sees in his urban neighborhood but, after hearing his friends in the barbershop talk about the many good things in their African-American community, he finds that on the way home he sees nothing but good news.