Tomikazu, a Hawaiian-born boy of Japanese descent, must help his family survive when his father and grandfather are arrested after the attack on Pearl Harbor. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue.
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
In 1865, two African-American brothers run away from their slave owners and claim a forgotten piece of land for their own, and even after their farming success is later taken away from them, they have learned the power of freedom and equality.