Author: Virginia Hamilton

M.C. Higgins The Great

By: Virginia Hamilton

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Aladdin Books

Seller ID: 910

Binding: paperback

Condition: new

winner of the Newbery Medal
Winner of the National Book Award
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Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

By: Virginia Hamilton

Price: $13.99

Publisher: Random House

Seller ID: 202

ISBN-13: 9780679879367

Binding: paperback

Condition: new

Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton's award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in America in the voices and stories of those who lived it. Leo and Diane Dillon's brilliant black-and-white illustrations echo the stories' subtlety and power, making this book as stunning to look at as it is to read. "There is probably no better way to convey the meaning of the institution of slavery as it existed in the United States to young readers than by using, as a text to share and discuss, Many Thousand Gone."--The New York Times Book Review...
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The House of Dies Drear

By: Virginia Hamilton

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks

Seller ID: 911

ISBN-13: 9781416914051

Binding: paperback

Condition: new

A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad in this Edgar Award-winning book from Virginia Hamilton.

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...
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

By: Virginia Hamilton

Price: $24.99

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf

Seller ID: 120

ISBN-13: 9780394869254

Binding: hardback in dust jacket

Condition: new

Black and white illustrations
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales told by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated bt Leo & Diane Dillon

By: Virginia Hamilton

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Random House

Seller ID: 201

ISBN-13: 9780679843368

Binding: paperback

Condition: new

"Folktales take us back to the very beginnings of people's lives, to their hopes and their defeats. American black folktales originated with peoples, most of whom long ago were brought from Africa to this country against their will...….But the hearts and minds of the black people who formed them, expanded them, and passed them on to us were full of love and hope." from the introduction
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Author: Virginia Hamilton

M.C. Higgins The Great

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

The House of Dies Drear

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales told by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated bt Leo & Diane Dillon