HENRY BROWN wasn’t sure how old he was. Henry was a slave. And slaves weren’t allowed to know ..

Chapter 1 “Did Mama sing every day?” asked Caleb. “Every-single-day?” He sat close ..

We eat until my stomach is as round as an albóndiga. Then we move to the living room to play cards. ..

Once a year the Emperor of China opened his court so that even the humblest of his people could come ..

Chapter 1 : She’:kon Hey, Chief, going home to your teepee?” Danny Bigtree clenched his fists ..

“Oh Hilly, I wish you’d use the guest bathroom,” say Miss Leefolt, rearranging her cards. ..

AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO 1924 “Our land is alive, Esperanza,” said Papa, taking her small hand ..

Nobody could tell me that today wasn’t gon’ be my day. Even though I couldn’t determine ..

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets ..

The cop is really pale, skin like a snowfall foreign to Sterling Point-the toilet of America, where shit ..

CHAPTER 1 LOGAN Are we supposed to pretend we’re Nazis? The second Mr. Bartley turns his back to our class, ..

PRISONER New York Harbor July 1780 I’d swum with deadly sharks and stolen from deadlier men. I’d ..

WHEN GRANDMOTHER MOON and Grandfather Sun grew tired of dancing, they called Mother Earth and Father ..

Misewa held a feast that night to honor Morgan’s accomplishment of killing the prairie chicken. ..

Paris, July 1942 The girl was the first to hear the loud pounding on the door. Her room was closest to the entrance ..

I start my day before sunrise, throwing on running clothes and laying a pinch of semaa at the eastern ..

Pastor Weeks walked toward his own slave, keeping a hand on the satchel so it didn’t bump against ..

Chapter 1 “Little Man, would you come on? You keep it up and you’re gonna make us late.” ..

Have I told you lately how wonderful you are? How the sound of your feet running from afar brings dancing ..

Prologue I WAS JUST A BABY WHEN GRANDMA MATILDA took me away from my mother. Not quite one year old, ..

1 What I couldn’t get out of my skull was the thought of their rough, grimy hands all over my clean ..

The next afternoon I stared at my reflection in the Oakridge Sports Club locker room mirror, pulling ..