Pinkney, Andrea Davis

While spending the summer with Aunt Ursa and her fourteen-year-old cousin Foley, twelve year-old Nell is happy to be in the company of her cousin and his friend Slade until they ask her to hide a pistol in her old doll house.

A young girl dances to the music while her baby brother watches from his playpen.

Describes the origins and practices of Kwanzaa, the seven-day festival during which people of African descent rejoice in their ancestral values.

Looks at the life of jazz musician Duke Ellington, discussing his accomplishments and lasting popularity over the course of his fifty-year career.

Describes how Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahalia Jackson shared a message of peace and hope in the civil rights movement.

The story of one of the most unique and courageous women in American history, Sojourner Truth.