Foreword / Ashley Bryan
Introduction / Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
What Shall We Tell You? / Wade Hudson and Floyd Cooper
The Golden Rule / Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery B. Weatherford
A Thousand Winters / Kwame Alexander and Ekua Holmes
We, the People / Rita Williams-Garcia
Prayers of the Grandmothers / Sharon M. Draper and Eric Velasquez
You are Here / Denise Lewis and Patrick Nancy Devard
Words Have Power / Ellen Oh and Don Ha
Kindness Is a Choice / Jacqueline Woodson and Javaka Steptoe
To Find a Friend / Joseph Bruchac and Charles R. Smith Jr.
Get on Board / Cheryl Willis Hudson
You Can Change the World / Bernette G. Ford and George Ford
Next / Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome
Drumbeat for Change / Kelly Starling Lyons
The Art of Mindfulness / Evelyn Coleman and Zamani Feelings
One Day Papi Drove Me to School / Tony Medina and Edel Rodriguez
It Helps to Look at Old Front Page Headlines / Marilyn Nelson and Mansa K. Mussa
All Nations Are Neighbors and I Wonder / Margarita Engle and Rafael Lopez
When I Think of You / Sharon G. Flake and Zamani Feelings
A Day of small things / Tonya Bolden and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Dark-Brown Skin Is Beautiful / Eleanora E. Tate and Chester Higgins Jr.
Here is a poem of love and hope: / Arnold Adoff
We've Got You / Pat Cummings
How to Pass the Test / Hena Khan and Stephan J. Hudson
Where Are the Good People? / Tameka Fryer Brown and Innosanto Nagara
You Can Do It / Jabari Asim and Nina Crews
Tell It in Your Own Way / Roy Boney Jr.
What Songs Will Our Children Sing? / Curtis Hudson and Stephanie Berger
You Too Can Fly / Zetta Elliott and Laura Freeman
Advice ... (I'm Old-School Like That) / Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
A Talkin'-To / Jason Reynolds and Andrea Pippins.