Eight-year-old Ernestine returns to visit relatives on the North Carolina farm where she was born

The editor gathers twenty-two African-American spirituals and reverential songs and pairs them with a psalm that amplifies their meaning and artwork from her husband and sons, in a family celebration that includes a CD of songs sung by the editor.

A spiritual memoir provides thirty-three short accounts of personal reflections about miraculous events in the author's life, enhanced with black-and-white illustrations and quotes from the Bible. (view table of contents)

Ernestine enjoys her trolley rides with her great-aunt Odessa to the railroad station to watch the North Carolina trains come in, and her entire family chips in to help her realize her dream of traveling to her birthplace. By the creators of Back Home.