"First days aren't easy for a girl with a name like Ashanti. It feels like no one can pronounce it correctly! But with some encouragement from her mom, Ashanti spells her name and learns just how special it is"--Provided by publisher.

Ashaniti plays "Teanna, " a grouchy money hungry store manager who tries to ruin Christmas but is foiled by a single mom and her daughter. Lots of fun, great music.

The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: "I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson's debut short collection. We feel them as we navigate her poems' linguistic risks and shifts and trumpets, as we straddle scales that tip us toward trauma's still-bloody knife in one turn then, into cutting wit and shrewd humor in the next. We hear them amplified...

Pieces of Me All Over the Place is a poetic biography reflecting many different pieces of Ashanti's life. This book takes you on a roller coaster ride of many twists and turns. It covers such topics as self-esteem, domestic violence, love, heartbreak, prayers, self-worth, social injustice, and the demise of African-Americans. Poems such as Am I Good Enough and Broken Vessel dive into self-esteem as Ashanti questions her own self-worth in relationships....

Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the rest of the Muppets put an all-new spin on the classic tale loved by millions the world over.