Having recently moved to a new apartment in the city, Zakiya is afraid of the sounds she hears in the evenings, until her sister, Jamila, comforts her with her grandmother’s African tales, which seem to transform the noises of the city into the sounds of Africa.
| Author | Virginia L. Kroll |
| Illustrator | Floyd Cooper |
| Date | 1998 |
| Publisher | Hachette Book Group |