A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.

Maya's family is preparing for a new baby and she wants to help, so she draws on her interest in birds' nests to create a very special quilt. Includes information about quilt making and instructions for making a small quilt.

Presents a rhyming riddle for each letter of the alphabet and includes folk art illustrations that provide clues to the answers.

Jennifer and her friends at the community center are making a quilt. They begin with lots of colorful fabrics and an idea. Then they measure, cut, stitch, layer, and quilt. It's the work of many hands, many hours, and many stories. And the result is something warm and wonderful they can all share. Lizzy Rockwell tells the heartwarming story of a diverse group of people coming together to make things both lasting and beautiful-- a quilt and friendship....

Hannah and her father flee north to Canada on the Underground Railroad to escape the plantation where they had been slaves, and she carries a quilt that her mother had sewn which features coded markings to help guide them to freedom.

Rhyming text follows the numbers from one to ten and back again to describe how a special family quilt is made.

A special quilt keeps a little girl from feeling homesick when she sleeps over with her grandparents.

Karla's quilt Mooshka tells her stories about the pieces of fabric that Mooshka is made from, but when Karla's baby sister is born, Mooshka falls silent until Karla overcomes her jealousy and shares Mooshka with the baby.

One of Sadie's favorite things to do when she visits her grandmother is to hear stories about the family members whose names are on a special quilt that Grandma had made, so Sadie is very sad when the quilt is blown away in a storm.