Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story by Anela Shelf Medearis
Published by Albert Whitman,2000
PB:40pp
In an African village live seven brothers who make family life miserable with their constant fighting. When their father dies, he leaves an unusual will: by sundown, the brothers must make gold out of seven spools of thread. If they fail, they will be turned out as beggars.