Foreword / Ashley Bryan -- Introduction / Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson -- What Shall We Tell You? / Wade Hudson and Floyd Cooper -- The Golden Rule / Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery B. Weatherford -- A Thousand Winters / Kwame Alexander and Ekua Holmes -- We, the People / Rita Williams-Garcia -- Prayers of the Grandmothers / Sharon M. Draper and Eric Velasquez -- You are Here / Denise Lewis and Patrick Nancy Devard -- Words Have Power / Ellen Oh and Don Ha -- Kindness Is a Choice / Jacqueline Woodson and Javaka Steptoe -- To Find a Friend / Joseph Bruchac and Charles R. Smith Jr. -- Get on Board / Cheryl Willis Hudson -- You Can Change the World / Bernette G. Ford and George Ford -- Next / Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome -- Drumbeat for Change / Kelly Starling Lyons -- The Art of Mindfulness / Evelyn Coleman and Zamani Feelings -- One Day Papi Drove Me to School / Tony Medina and Edel Rodriguez -- It Helps to Look at Old Front Page Headlines / Marilyn Nelson and Mansa K. Mussa -- All Nations Are Neighbors and I Wonder / Margarita Engle and Rafael Lopez -- When I Think of You / Sharon G. Flake and Zamani Feelings -- A Day of small things / Tonya Bolden and Vanessa Brantley-Newton -- Dark-Brown Skin Is Beautiful / Eleanora E. Tate and Chester Higgins Jr. -- Here is a poem of love and hope: / Arnold Adoff -- We've Got You / Pat Cummings -- How to Pass the Test / Hena Khan and Stephan J. Hudson -- Where Are the Good People? / Tameka Fryer Brown and Innosanto Nagara -- You Can Do It / Jabari Asim and Nina Crews -- Tell It in Your Own Way / Roy Boney Jr. -- What Songs Will Our Children Sing? / Curtis Hudson and Stephanie Berger -- You Too Can Fly / Zetta Elliott and Laura Freeman -- Advice ... (I'm Old-School Like That) / Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich -- A Talkin'-To / Jason Reynolds and Andrea Pippins.