Hopkinson, Deborah

The daughter of a slave forms a gospel singing group and goes on tour to raise money to save Fisk University.

Gramps's farm isn't the same after Grandma's death, but slowly Mags and Cody work to recreate her spirit by bringing back home some of the things she loved.

Twelve-year-old Davey arrives in Dawson City from Lake Bennett to look for his Uncle Walt who has come to the area to search for gold and encounters thousands of people, abandoned dogs, and a fire that threatens to destroy the town.

Davey, making his way from Seattle to find his uncle in the Klondike, stops in the town of Skagway where he takes a job working for photographer Erik Larson before starting the next leg of his journey, but he fears he may not be able to go on when Erik falls ill on the Chilkoot Trail.

A fictional story based on real events and people. In 1871, in a desperate attempt to save Fisk school, a school offering college classes to former slaves, a music teacher named George White set out with a group of students on a singing tour to raise money. This group soon became famous for introducing spirituals to the world.

When Charlie and Papa arrive in Lawrence for supplies, they find the bustling Kansas town threatened by border ruffians from proslave Missouri.

Congress has ruled that settlers in Kansas Territory will decide whether Kansas will enter the Union as a free or a slave state.

Papa is in danger for helping to rescue a free-state settler who was unjustly arrested by Kansas's proslavery sheriff.

Tells the story of Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary of the interior under President Franklin Roosevelt, telling how a childhood injustice influenced his decision to organize the 1939 concert given by African-American opera singer Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial after she had been denied the use of Constitution Hall.