Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

Archie's day would have been great if he had not started it by greeting the new cat on the block.

A father reassures his young son that although they cannot always be together, he misses his baby boy and always thinks about him.

A little boy wishes so much that he could whistle.

Messy Bessey learns a lesson about sharing when she cleans out her closet.

"After picking up a book from the library, Yvette--who has given up on love--gains the ability to see how other people's romantic relationships will end"--

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.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

A mischievous eight-year-old boy helps his sister with a bully problem, while facing a bully of his own at school.