McGill, Alice

Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.

Four storytellers share their unique versions of tales of animals, ghosts, and magic.

In 1946, seven-year-old Roberta goes to her grandparents' North Carolina farm during the last month of her mother's pregnancy.

A motley cast of animals star in an ethnically diverse collection of stories.

In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.

In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.

A collection of thirteen lullabies orally transmitted by African-American slaves, revealing their hardships and sorrows as well as soothing notes of well-being and belief in a better time to come; also includes an audio CD of the songs.

Presents five stories of Bruh Rabbit and his friends, based on tales the author heard growing up in Halifax County, North Carolina.

Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.