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.