Although delighted to have the resourceful and courageous Pluto as his first real friend, nine-year-old John soon begins to realize how their rural South environment discourages a close relationship between blacks and whites.

The joys and frustrations of family life are portrayed through the eyes of Annie Rye, the ten-year-old daughter of a black sharecropper.

When her best friend's family is evicted from their apartment, a nine-year-old girl decides to do something about the situation.

While trying to find a topic for her school assignment, Keisha visits Ellie's attic and discovers the excitement of the music and writing that flourished among African Americans in Harlem during the 1920s.

In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.

Presents sports profiles of Seattle Mariner baseball player, Ken Griffey, Jr., and his illustrious father, Ken Griffey, Sr., who played for several major league teams and now plays alongside his son.

A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.

Eleven-year-old Pecola prayed that she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting, her father would stop drinking, and her brother would stop running away. Young Adult

Discusses the holiday in which Afro-Americans celebrate their roots and cultural heritage from Africa.

Follows the life and career of the baseball player who was named Rookie of the Year in the National League in 1983.