Despite her mother's warnings about the hoodoo man, Clara delights in his tales of cures hidden in plants, and when her sister, Bessie, takes sick, Clara braves the perils of the nighttime forest to find the hoodoo man and his secret medicines....
Being sent from China to work with his uncle on Golden Mountain, Jo Lee's mother gives him words of encouragement to see him through the difficult transition to his new life in a new world in late-nineteenth-century California....
Unable to capture the true spirit of nature in his paintings, Kogi finds his life forever changed when he is transformed into a golden fish and discovers the powerful secret of all life, helping him to become the artist he is meant to be....
Big Cat Pepper has always been a part of the family. But he seems to be sleeping more and more. And then one day he just doesn't wake up again. Heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, the complex issue of death for young readers is addressed...
Half Vietnamese, half American, Tracy’s not sure she fits in with her family in California. But when she and her best friend find a soldier’s dogtag, she is jarred by memories from her life in Vietnam, and the lingering anti-war sentiments that s...
The eerie silence was broken only by the sound of scuffling feet as marchers approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The mood was sober. Hundreds of men, women, and children had been protesting in Selma for weeks to win black Americans...