Something beautiful
Something beautiful
When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
The single hero or heroine of the story, who is at the center of events, and is affected by events or influences events in the story.
When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
An African American boy enjoys a summer day on his family's farm, milking the cows, fishing, and having fun
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature
When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her
A cumulative rhyme summarizes the life's work of renowned Mexican potter, Juan Quezada. Additional information describes the process he uses to create his pots after the style of the Casas Grandes people
A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the North
In southeastern Africa, a young Yao girl and her mother find a way for their fellow villagers to escape approaching slave traders.
Gregory experiences a new way of life when he moves to Japan with his American mother and his Japanese father.