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Photographs and text present a biography of Nelson Mandela, his lifelong struggle against the system of apartheid and years of imprisonment followed by his 1994 victory as South Africa's first black president.

Chronicles the career of the NBA center from his journey from Nigeria to the University of Houston through his success in professional basketball.

Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.

When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela who likes her old house just fine.

Presents the life and career of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress focusing on his role in the struggle for black majority rights in South Africa.

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.

Winnie Mandela, wife of South African leader Nelson Mandela, shares the story of her life through interviews and letters in which she discusses the development of her political beliefs, and her forced separation from her husband.

Because he is responsible for keeping his pregnant mother and brothers and sisters from starving, young Adam travels daily from his small black South African township to sell newspapers in the city, until marauding bands of thugs make this work dangerous and force him to a difficult decision.

Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old man Timothy, twelve-year-old Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.