Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down the street, and across town to where men and women are gathered, ready to march for freedom and justice.

"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color." --

A young girl and her mother remember together all the girl's favorite stories about her mother's childhood.

The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with the legendary engineer Casey Jones.

When Lily Brown paints, she imagines all sorts of fantastic things in the scenes that she sees every day.

From the days she banged her rattle in the crib, Violet has been looking for friends to share her love of music.

Recalls the unheralded men whose labors served to build the canals, roads, railroads, bridges, and towering buildings of the United States.

On the leaving morning, a child watches for the moving men, has a cup of cocoa in the deli across the street, and leaves lip marks on the window of the apartment before departing for the new home.

Sweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.