Johnson, Angela

A child spends the day with the lively new babysitter, Miss Alice.

When the Aunt comes to live with them, the entire family enjoys her company and helps her forget about the home she has lost.

As she and a friend are loading a wagon with cookies and fans they have made, a young girl repeats the story of a wondrous Rolling Store that used to come to the country where Granddaddy lived when he was young.

A young girl and her mother remember together all the girl's favorite stories about her mother's childhood.

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

A collection of poems reminiscent of growing up as an African-American girl in Shorter, Alabama.

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

From the days she banged her rattle in the crib, Violet has been looking for friends to share her love of music.

Maya's grandfather brings her a pig from Alaska and the two of them learn about fun and sharing together.