"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...

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

A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

The summer night is full of wonderful sounds and scents as Susan falls asleep.

Because Mother Crocodile tells stories of the past, the little crocodiles choose to believe she is crazy until almost too late they learn otherwise.

Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Smith interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today.

Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshall by Judge Isaac Parker to bring law and order to the territory that was to become Oklahoma. Bass had a strong sense of right and wrong and would always try to capture a criminal without violence. He always got his man and his very name struck fear in outlaws, sometimes even causing them to give themselves up. Born into slavery in 1838,...

Jason wants to help, but isn't sure that his mother needs him at all after she brings home a new baby from the hospital.