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 Patrick and 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.
