Collective biographies

Profiles ten authors popular with teenage readers: Judy Blume, Virginia Hamilton, Julius Lester, Lois Lowry, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Katherine Paterson, Gary Paulsen, Gary Soto, R.L. Stine, and Laurence Yep; and includes primary and secondary bibliographies.

Discover the works of James Weldon Johnson, Alain Leroy Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, Aaron Douglas, "Duke" Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen and Josephine Baker.

Discusses the lives of John Adams, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, George Mason, William Paterson, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur Morris, and Richard Henry Lee.

Presents information on ten winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom which was established in 1945 to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to life in the United States, whether through politics, sports, business, or the arts.