Set includes fiction set in Africa, folk tales from America, biographies, historical fiction, and nonfiction. Set has 16 books: Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates), Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis), The Cay (Taylor), Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman (Sterling), The Friendship (Taylor), Girl Named Disaster (Farmer), House of Dies Drear (Hamilton), Jackie and Me (Gutman), Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball (O'Connor), Nightjohn (Paulsen), The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Hamilton), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor), Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman? (McKissack), Sounder (Armstrong), Stealing Freedom (Carbone), Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 (Curtis).