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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 career biography of the Zairian basketball phenomenon, educated at Georgetown and a star player for the Denver Nuggets.

Examines the events of February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela, a leader in the fight for equal rights in South Africa, was freed from prison after twenty-seven years, marking the symbolic end to apartheid, and looks at the reasons why Mandela was jailed, and the reaction of the world community to his release.

Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.