Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down the street, and across town to where men and women are gathered, ready to march for freedom and justice.

"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color." --

A child imagines being old with Grandaddy and joining him in such activities as playing cards all day, visiting the ocean, and eating bacon on the porch.

The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with the legendary engineer Casey Jones.

Eight-year-old Lila, born with xeroderma pigmentosum, a skin disease that makes her sensitive to sunlight, makes secret plans to feel the sun's rays on her ninth birthday.

From the days she banged her rattle in the crib, Violet has been looking for friends to share her love of music.

Recalls the unheralded men whose labors served to build the canals, roads, railroads, bridges, and towering buildings of the United States.

A boy's love of flight takes him on a journey from the dusty dirt roads of Alabama to the war-torn skies of Europe. Introduces young readers to the contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II.

As she and a friend are loading a wagon with cookies and fans they have made, a young girl repeats the story of a wondrous Rolling Store that used to come to the country where Granddaddy lived when he was young.