Miller, William

Recounts how the young Zora Hurston's memories of how her mother encouraged her to climb a chinaberry tree, to listen, and to dream enabled her to cope with her mother's death.

A biography of the writer whose works captured the oral tradition of African-American life in the South.

Story of Tituba, a West Indian slave girl who was unjustly accused of witchcraft at the outset of the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials.

Sonny's mother loses her job in New Orleans during the Depression, but Smilin' Jack, a jazz musician, explains to Sonny how he can organize a rent party to raise the money they need.

After listening to the radio broadcast of the heavyweight championship boxing fight of his hero, Joe Louis, a young African American boy realizes that he can emulate the boxer's persistence and strive to become whatever he wants to be.

Belinda's courage is tested when she and her mother sit out a storm, hoping that their house will protect them from the rising river.

An African-American child protests an unjust law in this story loosely based on Rosa Parks's historic decision not to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.