Linda Walvoord

A mother-child conversation introduces the topic of sexual abuse and ways to keep one's body private.

Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.

Realizing that the ability to read and write could be a step to freedom, young Frederick requested that his mistress, Sophia Auld, teach him to read along with her own five-year-old son, and she did until she learned that it was illegal to teach a slave to read.

In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, becomes the only African American student at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York, and while the students are pleased she is there, the faculty is not. Includes facts about Frederick and Rosetta's lives.

Describes the life of a tiny baby in his safe, warm, floating place during the nine months before he is born.