McKissack, Pat

In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.

In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.

Recounts the life of the African American educator, from her childhood in the cotton fields of South Carolina to her success as teacher, crusader, and presidential adviser.

Examines, through photographs and text, the lives and achievements of African-American scientists from colonial days to the present, including Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, and several black astronauts.

A greedy hyena's mean tricks on Monkey-Monkey eventually backfire when his victim finds out how he is being deceived.

When Messy Bessey starts to clean up her desk at school, she inspires the rest of the class to clean up the entire room.

Recounts the life of the author and civil rights leader who blazed a trail for racial equality and human rights through his songs, poems, speeches, and other writings.

A biography of the Afro-American minister and civil rights worker who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.

A little African monkey runs away from lions, leopards, and all the other dangerous animals except one.

An easy-to-read retelling of the encounter a family of bears has with a tired and hungry little girl.