• Joe Louis, Our Champion, Lee & Low Books, 2004
  • Skywalkers, Mellen Poetry Press, 2001
  • Tituba, Gulliver Books, 2000
  • Night Golf, Lee & Low Books, 1999
  • Richard Wright and the Library Card, Lee & Low Books, 1998, (selected as a “Notable Children’s Book” by Smithsonian magazine)
  • The Bus Ride (a children’s book with an introduction by Rosa Parks), Lee & Low Books, 1998
  • A House by the River, Lee & Low Books, 1997
  • The Conjure Woman, Atheneum, 1996, (winner of a Parent’s Choice Award)
  • The Knee-High Man, Gibbs Smith, 1995
  • Frederick Douglass and the Last Day of Slavery, Lee & Low Books, 1995
  • Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree, Lee & Low Books, 1994, (“Pick of the Lists” by American Bookseller)
  • Breathed on Glass, Druid Press, 1992
  • Old Faith, Mellen Poetry Press, 1991
  • The Trees Are Mended, Northwoods Press of Thomston, Maine, 1987