While preparing for a backyard campout, Jada and Jamal Perkins join their friends Josh Cornish and Carlita Garcia in a search for Mrs. Mason's lost cat Daisy.

Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.

In a series of letters a boy, his cience teacher, and his partents idscuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses

A child describes the family events, like making apple butter and having relatives visit, that center around Momma's kitchen.

When a slave-owning family decides to go to California to mine for gold, twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother calls her Hope, travels with them, which ultimately leads her on a journey to freedom.

"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Today and always...

In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.

Momma Mary tells stories about a special young man who does wondrous things, especially for the slaves on the Plenty Plantation.

"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"-- Provided by publisher.