Smalls-Hector, Irene

When Alicia makes a new friend and becomes involved in the fun activities of an integrated kindergarten, she soon forgets her former anxieties about beginning school.

On a North Carolina plantation, a young slave girl's Christmas is brightened by the Johnkankus parade she witnesses as she waits for her parents to come home.

A young girl and her grandmother enjoy a day filled with tea parties, hide-and-seek, stories, and plenty of love.

As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss cross steps and backwards steps.

In 1957, a young girl is torn between life in the neighborhood she grew up in and fitting in at the school she now attends.

In 1957, a young girl is torn between life in the neighborhood she grew up in and fitting in at the school she now attends.

Sister Louisa, who cares for Jenny Reen while her parents work in the field, warns the young slave girl about a monster, known from long-told tales, who comes out on Halloween.

A young boy loves to sniff the lemon as he enjoys baking a cake with his grandfather.

When Kevin comes to live at his cousin Jonathan's house, both boys must make some big adjustments.

Relates the adventures of a young girl, living in Harlem in the 1950's, on the morning that she finds a nickel in the street.