Informative children's book about the underground railroad.

A 14 year old boy moves with his family to California after his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor

A story based on real events of a community that works together to gain civil rights.

Japanese Americans reflect on their years spent in internment camps as children or young adults. They discuss the process of being forced from their homes, and their ability to make the prisons more livable despite oppressive conditions.

An account of immigration from the 1600s to present.

A picture book about the life of Florence Nightingale, a nurse who was dedicated to making hospitals clean and efficient. Through her life's work, she helped to make nursing an important and respected profession.

A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.

A chronological telling of Sojourner Truth's life.

An informational guide about the daily life of pioneers

The novel is appropriately grim and conveys the hopes and disillusionments of families migrating to California during the Depression. Van Raven's descriptions of such things as the labor of orange picking or the emptiness of the dusty and forlorn great plains are on target as is his telling of th