Titles include "I Look Pretty," "Fun," "Riding on the Train," "Harriet Tubman," and "By Myself."

Keshia learns how to walk, dance and then gets tired and needs a nap.

When a family leaves the house for an outing, the vegetables have a house party.

Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the northern states.

Seeing her beloved grandfather making a mean face while he rehearses for one of his plays, Tamika becomes afraid that someday she will lose his love and he will make a mean face at her.

Poems by Nathaniel, a spirited nine-year-old poet who raps and rhymes about what it's like to be nine, his education, and his family life. Includes instructions for children on how to create a twelve-bar blues poem.

Through individual poems and poems for multiple voices, four young people explore the bonds of friendship, family, and community.

The words can come from a memory, or a dream, or something I see or hear or wonder about or imagine. Maybe there's a place where words live, where our minds and hearts can go and find them when we want to write or read. I like to imagine that there is such a place. I call it "The Land of Words." In this collection of twenty-one poems, National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Award winner Eloise Greenfield journeys...

A boy riding slowly on a horse, sitting behind the horse's owner, imagines that he is riding swiftly by himself.

Koya Delaney, an 11-year-old Black girl, has trouble expressing anger, until her cousin, a popular male singer, comes to town.