Moonshot
by Brian Floca | 
Let the Children March
by Monica Clark-Robinson | 
Of Thee I Sing
by Barack Obama |
Her Right Foot
by Dave Eggers |
Sit-In
by Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
by Paula Young Shelton | 
As Good as Anybody
by Richard Michelson | 
Locomotive
by Brian Floca |
Tibet
by Peter Sis | 
The Racecar Alphabet
by Brian Floca |
Boycott Blues
by Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Seeds of Freedom
by Hester Bass | 
The Story of the Pilgrims
by Katharine Ross |
The People Shall Continue
by Simon J. Ortiz | 
What Presidents Are Made Of
by Hanoch Piven |
September Roses
by Jeanette Winter |
As an Oak Tree Grows
by G. Brian Karas |
Ancient China
by Arthur Cotterell | 
Independent Dames
by Laurie Halse Anderson |
The Train of States
by Peter Sis |
You may never have heard of a lightship. Once, lightships anchored on waters across America, on the oceans and in the Great Lakes, floating where lighthouses could not be built. Smaller than most ships, but more steadfast, too, they held their spots, through calm and storm, to guide sailors toward safe waters. In these pages one lightship and her crew (and cat) again hold their place. The crew goes again from bow to stern, from keel to mast, to run their engines, shine their lights, and sound their horns. They run the small ship that guides the large ships. They are the crew (and cat) that work to make the ocean safe, that hold their place, so other ships can sail. Come aboard!