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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.

Presents the story of the expedition to the North Pole by explorers Robert Peary and African-American Matthew Henson, focusing on the contributions made by Henson.

Presents a short biography of the life and career of Muhammad Ali; and describes his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, his early introduction to boxing, and entrance into professional prizefighting.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script, as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Presents an illustrated biography of Jackie Robinson, an African-American athlete who was discriminated against by Major League Baseball and in society in general, but fought for his rights in sports and in the army before he helped the Brooklyn Dodgers go to the World Series.

Text and illustrations tell the life story and describe the work of African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth.

Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

After living on a plantation and picking apples without being able to eat them, Harriet Tubman achieves her dream of having her own apple trees.

This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether interracial couples are still seen as deviant, whether children of interracial parents face special difficulties, and whether bilingual education is necessary.

Frederick Douglass was born a slave, denied an education, and expected to work like a beast of the fields until the day he died.

A collection of fifty-nine poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.

An introduction to the life of Mae Jemison, the engineer and doctor who became the first African-American woman to fly on the space shuttle.

Examines the life and achievements of Frederick Douglass, a man who escaped from slavery and went on to work as an abolitionist fighting for an end to slavery, and later for African-American civil rights.

A career biography of LeBron James, discussing his youth and family in Akron, Ohio, his accomplishments in high school and college, and his record as a professional basketball player with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

A sharecropper's son, Jesse Owens was born when the world was on the brink of World War I, and attained Olympic glory with the world on the brink of World War II.