Schmidt, Gary D

An illustrated biography for children of St. Martin de Porres, canonized in 1962, the first black saint in the Americas, illegitimate child of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, born in Lima, Peru in 1579, and educated in Ecuador as a barber/doctor, and describes his entrance into the Dominican Order and his life of service and healing.

Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear, bringing hope to the women and children who listen.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.