Virginia Hamilton

Thomas must keep the treasure of Dies Dear from landing in the wrong hands, but there are many secrets beneath Drear House, and not everyone can be trusted Thomas Small and his best friend Pesty Darrow have been keeping the secret of the vast treasure that's hidden in Mr. Pluto's cave, once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Pesty also has to keep the treasure a secret from her family, who want it for themselves. And there are plenty more secrets...

Provides a collection of traditional African American folktales and includes "John and the Devil's Daughter," "The Beautiful Girl of the Moon Tower," and "A Wolf and Little Daughter."

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.

In this retelling, using Gullah speech, of a familiar story the wily Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox who has set out to trap him.

Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

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