Gabriel, twelve, gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, a Black World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.

"From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandmother she's never met--only to discover she runs a school for Southern conjure magic"--

Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her widowed father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels; she has been in a wheelchair all her life, and is just fine getting around without help, but it seems that since her mother was killed in an accident everyone (father, grandparents, teachers, and classmates) have started treating her differently:...

The Discover Cryptids film crew travel to South Carolina to investigate reports of a Swamp lizard man, which they are convinced is a hoax, just like all the other monsters--but Gabe is not so sure.

In 1957, when her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, South Carolina, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with a black boy forces her to confront the racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.

Although teachers, counselors, and social workers try to help, it is a stray cat that finally enables eleven-year-old Jordan to stand up to the father who has beaten her and her brother for years.

After the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker tries to make a new life on a South Carolina island while waiting to be joined by his beloved Easter, who is studying in the North.

Having become embroiled in one troublesome situation after another while living on his uncle's plantation in South Carolina in 1861, eleven-year-old Austin eventually accuses his older relative of hypocrisy.

Living with his uncle on a South Carolina plantation in 1860, eleven-year-old Austin befriends a young slave boy and learns more about how Jesus loves people who are different.

Living with his uncle on a South Carolina plantation in 1860, eleven-year-old Austin decides to disobey the law and teach reading to a slave he has befriended, an act that endangers his friend but prompts his uncle to reconsider the treatment of his slaves.