Selected Workshistorical fiction
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
A freed girl becomes a heroine during the Reconstruction era. The Captive
In The Captive, Kofi is kidnapped in Africa and enslaved in New England. nonfiction
"Bury Me Not in a Land of Slaves": African Americans in the Time of Reconstruction
"...There is fine reading here for both research and pleasure..." -School Library Journal |
Books African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women. Women of Hope
"This handsome volume will likely engender in readers an appreciation for life's countless possibilities, and send them scrambling to find out more about these extraordinary women." -Publishers Weekly Beginning with the life of the journalist Ida B. Wells, born in 1862 and ending with Mae C. Jemison, the first African American woman astronaut born in 1956, this book gives brief biographies of thirteen outstanding African American women. The Heart Calls Home
"...a story of courage and hope." -Booklist This is the last book in a trilogy beginning with the novel,Which Way Freedom and continuing in Out From This Place. Set in South Carolina, both of these novels follow Obi and Easter as they free themselves from slavery during the Civil War and meet the challenges of living as freed people during the beginning of Reconstruction. In The Heart Calls Home, Obi and Easter struggle to overcome many obstacles during the difficult period of Reconstruction after the Civil War. Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground, by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan
"...this is an unusual and outstanding book of history and archaeology." -Children's Literature Through archaeological findings in an almost forgotten 18th century, New York City African burial ground, a people whose history was almost lost in time, is rediscovered. |
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