Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Text and illustrations tell the life story and describe the work of African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth.

In the Jim Crow South, a young African-American girl decides to share the secret of her and her mother's fishing success with their needy white neighbors.

In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.

Presents a collection of poems that looks at the final months of Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Presents profiles of ten African-American women whose efforts on behalf of racial justice and freedom have influenced the course of history.

"After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder"--Provided by publisher.

"After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder"--Provided by publisher.

"A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day"--Provided by publisher.

A narrative history of the Motown music label covering the historical context, personalities, and ongoing legacy of the "sound of young America.".