In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

When Stella's friend Owen loses a tooth at the museum, Stella and Roger believe that someone stole it and search high and low to find it.

Lola plants a flower garden with her parent's help, and watches it grow.

Selah can't wait to show off her newly loc'd hair at school, but when she bounces off the bus, her classmates react with whispers and a word Selah hasn't heard before: dreadlocks. The word dread makes her uneasy. Is there something scary about her hair? Selah's family shares stories about standing up to hair discrimination and why they love their locs, helping Selah return to school with confidence, because there's absolutely nothing dreadful about...

Keely doesn't like her hair, and wants to fit in at school like everyone else. Her mom tells Keely some things about her hair that she doesn't know.

"This simple, playful, and beautiful board book stars four friends who celebrate the joy of their hairstyles from bouncing curls to swinging braids"--

"Frankie wants to be just like her mama and namesake, Franklynn McKnight--an award-winning journalist. But sometimes, sharing her famous mama with the world is hard. Frankie, her teenage sister, Raven, and Papa all miss Mama when she leaves on assignment. Until Frankie has a great idea: with a little assistance from her closest friends--her doll Farrah, Robert the toy robot, and her cat, Nina Simone--she can make her own news show! And when she hears...

"Have you ever been told that you're not enough? That you're not strong enough, tall enough, or fast enough? Bessie was told she was not enough. This book combines an imagined story of Bessie Stringfield as a young girl with historical facts about the real Bessie, a true adventurer and one of the first African-American women to travel solo across the United States on a motorcycle"--Back cover.

A girl describes the many wonders of the color black, which is the amalgam of all colors: the starry sky at night, her own black puppy, and even the color of her eyes.

In 1964, ten-year-old African American singer Melody Ellison decides to fix up her Detroit neighborhood playground and plant a garden, but when her friends put her in charge, Melody finds out just how hard it can be to lead.