A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

A little boy yearns for a lunch box, even though he hasn't started school yet.

A family celebrates each day of Kwanzaa.

When Julian, his little brother Huey, and their friend Gloria decide to be "crime busters, " they find themselves in one adventure after another.

Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.

A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do

..".read with lively narration and dramatic expression for the young reader...[satisfies] the needs of children being read to and is sensitive to their reading maturity by a slow and deliberate pace, but not so slow as to be boring...brilliant, expressive, and appealing." - Booklist

Describes the joys and hardships experienced by an African-American pioneer woman who staked a claim for free land in the Oklahoma territory.