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New York City's Five Items area in 1846 is a volatile combination of poor blacks and immigrants from European countries. William Henry Lane is a teenager working odd careers to pay the bills, but he really loves to dance. Observing the other dancers in Five Items and practicing when he can, he gets so excellent that he begins to call himself "Get better at Juba". Professional Juba is merely another entertainer, dance in return for supper money, until he is brought to the attention of Charles Dickens, the great British novelist. Dickens writes about Juba and his dance in his publication American Records, and it is as "Boz's Juba" (Boz was Dickens' nom de plume) that Juba performs in Britain with the Pell Serenaders. Juba quickly locates that in London, he's turning mind and taking the city by storm along with his dance skills and sense of rhythm. But exactly what will Juba do when the Serenaders have to return to america? Slavery has been abolished in Britain; in the US it still is out there in every its ugliness. Free dark-colored men and women tend to be captured in the North and dispatched down South as slaves. Britain offers freedoms that Juba could only dream of in the States, and going back home may verify an unhealthy decision. This novel is dependant on a true storyline, the intricacies of Juba's meteoric climb as an explosive young black colored dancer taken to life by Walter Dean Myers through careful and intense research.
