At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio, based on actual slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.

After several failed attempts to release Challenger, an American bald eagle, back into the wild after he had been taken in by humans, he has become an ambassador to the plight of these fabulous birds and has appeared at numerous important ceremonies and on many television shows.

After winning the state Little League Tournament by default, the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars, the state's only all-black team from segregated Charleston, South Carolina, was invited to the 1955 Little League Baseball World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, but were not allowed to participate since they did not officially play to win their state's tournament.

As a special gift to her Uncle John, Katie and her sisters are asked to help set the white table for dinner as their mother explains the significance of each item placed on it and how the white table is a symbol for and remembrance to service members fallen, missing, or held captive in the line of duty.

In a powerful and rhythmic picture book, a grandmother tells the tale of Gullahs and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets that keep their African heritage alive.

Presents information about the state of Massachusetts in an alphabetical arrangement.

During the Berlin Airlift, a humanitarian rescue mission that utilized British and American pilots to fly supplies into West Berlin, one of the American pilots, Lt. Halvorsen, came to be known as the Chocolate Pilot to seven-year-old Mercedes and the other children of Berlin. 20,000 first printing.

Great Grandma Annie reminisces about life on her family's Oklahoma farm during the terrible drought of the 1930s when the region was known as the 'Dust Bowl'