Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brother's store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.

Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a de

Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a b

Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.

Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.

Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant,