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Eleven-year-old Tank and his older brother Jimbo, who both love baseball, can't believe their good fortune when Josh Gibson, home-run king of the Homestead Grays, stays at their house during a series in Nashville.

Surveys the life of the American frontiersman who became a member of Congress and died trying to defend the Alamo.

Eric Carter, Mark Bruder, and Shayleen Mills, three friends in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, find their lives in danger when they decide to investigate strange occurrences at a new toy store, only to find that the toys have been watching them too.

Davy Crockett tames the American frontier in Texas and fights against the Mexicans in the Battle of the Alamo.

Grandma Gee shares with her grandchildren her experiences in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960, when she passed out flyers while her cousins and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.

Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and times of frontiersman Davy Crockett.

When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.

Surveys the history, geography, people, cities, and other aspects of the state known for its natural beauty.

A biography of Davy Crockett, focusing on his childhood years and how he grew to be a freedom fighter at the Alamo.