Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Blue Sky Press
Keywords: pieces, time
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0590288814
ISBN-13: 9780590288811

From attending the circus with her family to surviving the death of her beloved collie, the daily life of Valena is drawn here with warmth and quiet humor. Hamilton has deftly woven together moments in time - the present, the past, and hopes for the future - in this gathering of time pieces that move backward and forward. Atrfully quilted together, thes epieces create a picture of family, schoolteachers, neighbors (good and bad), and a history of escaped slavery, as well as the strabds of racism that seemingly permeate everything - both directly and indirectly.

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Aladdin
Keywords: drear, dies, house
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-01-03
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1416914056
ISBN-13: 9781416914051

The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend -- two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms....

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: signature, house, drear, mystery
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-02-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 0590956272
ISBN-13: 9780590956277

An African-American family living in the house of the long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his vast treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their house. Reissue. SLJ. K. PW.

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: christmas, bells
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1997-10-15
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0152015507
ISBN-13: 9780152015503

Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”--School Library Journal

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: drear, dies, house
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1968-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0027425002
ISBN-13: 9780027425000

"An absorbing mystery (about a Negro boy’s house, once part of the Underground Railroad), enriched with perceptive insights into certain aspects of the Negro American’s heritage."--Booklist. An ALA Notable Children’s Book. A School Library Journal Best of the Best. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Aladdin
Keywords: brown, junior, planet
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-04-25
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1416914102
ISBN-13: 9781416914105

Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who’s prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester.Most of the time they have been in the school building -- in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system. They have been pressing their luck for months...and then they are caught. As society -- in the form of a zealous assistant principal -- closes in on them, Junior’s f

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: cousins
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 0590454366
ISBN-13: 9780590454360

Although Cammy loves her grandmother, her mother, and her big brother, she just cannot seem to see past the flaws in her coiusins. By the author of If People Could Fly. Reprint. H. K. AB.