south carolina

The author describes his experiences teaching on the island of Yamacraw off the coast of South Carolina, home to a mostly African-American, illiterate population.

In 1978, nine-year-old Sylvia and her mother move to Wakefield, South Carolina, where Sylvia becomes best friends with a woman approaching her one hundredth birthday.

When her mother goes to Florida in 1978, ten-year-old Sylvia stays behind in South Carolina, but when she fails to make new friends at school, she realizes that her newly-discovered great-grandmother and best friend, Miz Lula Maye, might be the problem.

Ten-year-old Sylvia has just discovered that her centenarian best friend is also her great-grandmother, and together they pursue discoveries yet to come.

During the Reconstruction, former slave Gideon Jackson becomes a valued member of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention and helps other freed slaves begin new lives.

A collection of true stories that chronicle the experiences of African slaves on Carolina plantations.

A classical tragedy based on the story of Oedipus, set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.

A novel set in Charleston during the American Revolution, in which a young dressmaker named Celia Garth becomes a spy for the "swamp fox, " American general Francis Marion, during the British occupation of her city.

Mama Day uses her ancient knowledge of herbal medicine and pits herself in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her niece, Cocoa.