Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Blue Sky Press (AZ)
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780439271936

Twenty-six works by the distinguished children's book author illuminate the creative energy behind her artistry while speaking to a new generation of readers, introducing them to her literary vision and stunning body of writing which include Newbery Medal and National Book Award winners.

Zeely

Zeely
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1967
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 0027424707

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.

Her Stories

Her Stories
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590473705

Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.

Time Pieces

Time Pieces
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590288811

Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton presents a novella that brings together the slave past and multi-generational present life of a young girl in Ohio. From picking berries with her cousins to surviving a tornado to being dissed by a white, bigoted teacher, the daily life of Valena is drawn here with quiet dignity. Time Pieces are places in time, including chapters moving back to Hamilton's autobiographical family story of her grandfather's escape from slavery in Virginia, when he was brought to Ohio by his mother, a native American. A strong work of fiction from a master storyteller.

In the Beginning

In the Beginning
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1988
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152387426

An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the world explaining the creation of the world.

The Planet of Junior Brown

The Planet of Junior Brown
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1971
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0020435401

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.

Bluish

Bluish
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1453246711

All of the kids at school stay away from “Bluish,” but when Dreenie and Tuli learn to see beyond her differences, they discover a true friend Ten-year-old Natalie is different from the other kids at her New York City magnet school: She is often absent, wears a knit cap, and uses a wheelchair. Her classmates have nicknamed her “Bluish” because her pale skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Dreenie is fascinated by and a bit frightened of Bluish—she watches her from afar and writes about her in her journal. As the school year progresses, Dreenie and her friend Tuli learn to see beyond Bluish’s differences and discover a fiercely independent, spirited girl who isn’t so different from them after all. But it’s not easy being friends with someone who’s sick, and Dreenie doesn’t always know how to act. Hamilton delivers a lesson of compassion and demonstrates the power of friendship to overcome even the most trying of situations.

People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:

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.

Many Thousand Gone

Many Thousand Gone
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-12-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780785784852

For use in schools and libraries only. Recounts the journey of slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton
Author: Julie Rubini
Publisher: Biographies for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN: 9780821422694

A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2018 (Outstanding Merit selection) - Finalist, 2018 Ohioana Book Award Long before she wrote The House of Dies Drear, M. C. Higgins, the Great, and many other children's classics, Virginia Hamilton grew up among her extended family near Yellow Springs, Ohio, where her grandfather had been brought as a baby through the Underground Railroad. The family stories she heard as a child fueled her imagination, and the freedom to roam the farms and woods nearby trained her to be a great observer. In all, Hamilton wrote forty-one books, each driven by a focus on "the known, the remembered, and the imagined"--particularly within the lives of African Americans. Over her thirty-five-year career, Hamilton received every major award for children's literature. This new biography gives us the whole story of Virginia's creative genius, her passion for nurturing young readers, and her clever way of crafting stories they'd love.