Hamilton, Virginia

A collection of speeches, essays, and interviews in which award winning author Virginia Hamilton discusses her life and career and her views on African-American literature.

This American Negro leader, author, and sociologist spent his life fighting for the rights of blacks everywhere.

Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home.

In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, an African American family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" broadcast.

Though she has been raised lovingly by her grandparents, an African-American teenager goes in search of her father.

The friendship of twelve-year-old cousins Cammy and Elodie is threatened when the family reunion includes two other cousins near their age and Elodie is tempted to drop Cammy for a new companion.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on African-American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.