"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color" --

Welcome to Magnolia Street, where Charlie has just moved into her new home. It isn't long before Charlie's exploring, meeting all of her new neighbors, and getting herself into trouble. Her adventures with her bound-to-be best friend Billy—tricking Charlie's older brother, making a racket on a bus trip to the museum, or digging up a box of buried treasure—make even ordinary exciting. This collection of interrelated short stories is a true delight,...

Maya's grandfather brings her a pig from Alaska and the two of them learn about fun and sharing together.

On the leaving morning, a child watches for the moving men, has a cup of cocoa in the deli across the street, and leaves lip marks on the window of the apartment before departing for the new home.

Ali discovers that there is someone else that thinks snakes are beautiful and loves them as much as she does.

A child imagines being old with Grandaddy and joining him in such activities as playing cards all day, visiting the ocean, and eating bacon on the porch.

A very young boy in a yellow slicker enjoys playing in the rain.

As she and a friend are loading a wagon with cookies and fans they have made, a young girl repeats the story of a wondrous Rolling Store that used to come to the country where Granddaddy lived when he was young.

A child spends the day with the lively new babysitter, Miss Alice.

Recalls the unheralded men whose labors served to build the canals, roads, railroads, bridges, and towering buildings of the United States.