In Philadelphia, Addy Walker and her mother build new lives, with Addy attending school for the first time

Trying to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia after having been a slave, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend.

"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"--

Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.

After the Civil War ends, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache

A collection of fictional letters recreates the life and times of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped to freedom in the 1840s and who became a published author and abolitionist

Amid the Depression, the Logan family struggles to protect their Mississippi farm and begins to feel the pressures of racial unrest when a friend is unjustly convicted of a crime by a white jury.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.

Trying to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia after having been a slave, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend.