Hamilton, Virginia

Presents Virginia Hamilton's novel "M. C. Higgins, the Great," in which 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; and includes a selection of related stories, poems, and essays.

Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

A black family of five moves into a house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds, events and secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

Pretty Pearl, a spirited young African god child eager to show off her powers, travels to the New World where, disguised as a human, she lives among a band of free blacks who have created their own separate world deep inside a vast forest.

An 11-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers.

When his shadow steals his magic dust, Jahdu must try to recover it.

In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast.

Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.