Johnson, Angela

Nine-year-old Lila, born with xeroderma pigmentosum, a skin disease that make her sensitive to sunlight, makes secret plans to feel the sun's rays on her tenth birthday.

Recalls the unheralded men whose labors served to build the canals, roads, railroads, bridges, and towering buildings of the United States.

Presents a brief story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II through the eyes of a young boy whose dreams to fly like the wind came true when he became part of 332nd Fighter Group in 1942.

A little girl imitates her big sister Kyla all day, until in the evening Kyla imitates her.

Two young girls participate in a freedom march and listen to Dr. Martin Luther King speak during the Civil Rights movement.

A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved older brother, who disappeared four months earlier off the coast of Cape Cod.

On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.

Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties.

Presents two books about Charlie, a ten-year-old girl who moves to a new neighborhood, befriends a boy named Billy, and finds herself on several adventures including hunting for maniac monkeys, digging for fossils and treasure, braving a neighbor's attack cat, and investigating an entire family's disappearance, as well as discovering that she and her older brother can be friends.

A collection of short stories in which young people extend help to those around them while trying to find hopeful answers to life's problems.