Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

A biography of the writer whose works reflect the traditions, feelings, and experiences of African Americans.

Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.

Messy Bessey learns a lesson about sharing when she cleans out her closet.

Messy Bessey discovers that with proper care her garden will flourish.

A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

In segregated Nashville during the 1950s, a young African American girl endures a series of indignities and obstacles to get to the public library, one of the few integrated places in the city.