Johnson, Spencer

Presents the author's parable about change framed in a story about a group of high school friends trying to handle change in their lives.

A biography, stressing the courage, of the first African-American player in professional baseball.

Presents a parable about attaining happiness and success in life through the story of a young man, stuck in a rut in his personal and professional life, who searches for the elusive gift he learned about from a wise old gentleman.

Presents a parable in which two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two tiny mouse-sized people, Hem and Haw, try to find a way to deal successfully with unexpected change in their maze.

Contains five imaginative biographies of real people and events designed to illustrate the values of helping, honesty, determination, humor, and believing in oneself.

A young boy grows to be a sick, bitter old man searching for the precious present he was told would be the key to happiness, then realizes he had the gift inside himself all along.