Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understandin

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

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmon

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 rac

Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as

In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is black, to share the town pool and other public places with h

Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are heading southwest on the back of Stella, the giant pteranodon, to find Montez, h

Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.

It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of

Now that she has found her brother Montez, Magdalys and her squad have embarked on a secret mission for General Grant, taking them deep into the

The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black