Joshua goes to the shore with his family. On board pages.

Daisy describes the preparations leading up to her older sister's wedding and the joyous and bittersweet feelings surrounding the event itself.

In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.

A little girl imitates her big sister Kyla all day, until in the evening Kyla imitates her.

A young girl's grandmother tells her of her love for baseball and the day they let her play in the game even though she was a girl.

On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.