Octavian, a young African American, as is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

13-year-old Eva sets out to Denver to find her birth mother. When she arrives, however, she finds that her real family is nothing like she imagined.

Amari's is dragged from her home to the Carolinas where she is bought by a plantation owner, befriends an indentured servant, and struggles to find herself in her new world.

When Francie tries to clear the name of a sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a white man, she gets herself and her community in more trouble than she could have ever imagined.

In Georgia in 1976, young Gabriel King must overcome his fears and help Frita, the only black girl in his class, stand up to her own.

A young African-American boy discovers the world--and himself--when he integrates an all-white boarding school in the 1950s.

Young Emma, a slave who's always been treated as family, discovers that every decision has its consequences, and final judgment is passed down not by man, but by his maker.

The life of a young slave named 47 seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave and finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.

No one in town will let Turner Buckminster forget that he's a minister's son except for Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves.

Twelve-year-old Colton takes a job with the Pony Express and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.