During the summer of 1957 when both their dogs are poisoned, twelve-year-old Jeff must come to terms with his own Jewish identity and with his best friend's brutality and prejudice.
After his father leaves their family, twelve-year-old Uton Hinds, known as Tall T, tries to earn extra money in his Jamaican village and tries to further his education as he ponders how he feels about his father's behavior.
A collection of traditional tales about dogs from around the world, arranged in such categories as "The Trickster Dog, " "The Enchanted Dog, " and "The Super Dog.".
From her childhood in Martinique, Josephine knew that she would someday be "more than a queen," and she eventually fulfills her destiny at the side of Napoleon Bonaparte as Empress of the French.
Father and Mother Eagle take a Navajo boy to the country of the clouds where, though he allows Coyote to trick him, he learns the healing ways of eagles.