Illustrations and rhythmic text recall the December, 1955, bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble

In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, wh

Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and

"In 1898, Moses Thomas' summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among

During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her famil

In 1866, eleven-year-old Addy and her family gather in Cape Island, later known as Cape May, New Jersey, where she encounters an impoverished whi

When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikel

In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central

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

Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but wh