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

A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselv

When seven-year-old Laura and her family visit Grandfather's grave at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, the Japanese American child leaves behi

As his family reminisces after his beloved grandfather's death, a boy realizes that his grandfather is still with him in all the special places t

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.

While spending the summer in Chinatown with his great-aunt, a young boy finds an old ten-man dragon in a shop and gets a number of people to help

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

"Poems focusing on unique places of historical, environmental, and/or cultural interest in the United States by poets from diverse backgrounds, i