McKissack, Pat

In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.

Because she's the oldest and can do the most, Carolyn is sure she is loved the best. But then she begins to have doubts when her brother and sister seem to get preferential treatment from her parents. In the end, Carolyn learns a lesson about love.

Presents a biography of Sojourner Truth, an African-American freed slave, preacher, abolitionist, and activist, and contains information on her life as slave in New York, her journey to freedom in 1827, and her efforts for civil rights through her death in 1883.

Monkey-Monkey is suspicious when Hyena volunteers to help him build a new house, and it is not long before he discovers Hyena has been trying to trick him.

Nettie Jo desperately needs a needle to sew a new dress for her beloved doll, but the three animals she helps during her search do not seem inclined to give her their assistance in return.

During the Depression, three young sisters get one baby doll for Christmas and must find a way to share.

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-African-American town of Nicodemus, Kansas.

A collection of ghost stories with African-American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset.

A lyrical story-in-verse that details the experiences of an African boy who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.