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Books with author Evelyn Coleman

  • Freedom Train

    Evelyn Coleman

    Paperback (Margaret K. McElderry Books, Jan. 3, 2012)
    Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boy’s struggle to help freedom triumph over fear in the 1940s American South. It’s 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train—a train that is traveling to all forty-eight states carrying the country’s most important documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Clyde is chosen to say the Freedom Pledge at the train’s stop in Atlanta, but his terrible stage fright forces him to refuse the honor. Instead, it’s the class bully, Phillip, who gets selected, and he begins to torment Clyde. When an African-American boy saves him from a beating, Clyde is shocked. Especially when he learns that William lives in the white part of town. How can this be? And why can’t he bring himself to be friends with William?Clyde hasn’t told his parents he won’t perform the pledge, nor has he mentioned his confusing friendship with a boy of color. So when the townspeople threaten William’s family, Clyde has a choice to make: Will he keep quiet, or stand up for real freedom? Ideal for classrooms, Freedom Train contains historical photos of the Freedom Train and its guards, as well as an author’s note that provides additional information about the history of the Freedom Train.
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  • Shadows on Society Hill: An Addy Mystery

    Evelyn Coleman

    Paperback (American Girl, Feb. 28, 2015)
    Addy is overjoyed when Poppa's new boss offers the Walker family a home of their own on his property in Philadelphia's elegant Society Hill neighborhood. But Addy soon discovers that their new home holds frightening secrets, and one leads straight back to the North Carolina plantation where she and her family were slaves only two years before. Can Addy uncover the truth before her family loses everything, even with someone determined to stop her? Includes an "Inside Addy's World" essay about reconstruction after the Civil War.
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  • Circle of Fire

    Evelyn Coleman

    eBook (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, July 8, 2014)
    In 1958, a girl risks everything to put a stop to a deadly Ku Klux Klan plot to bomb her Tennessee schoolThe middle child in a family of eight, Mendy Anna Thompson was named after her grandmother’s hero—former first lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Playing in the woods near her house in Monteagle, Tennessee, with Mr. Hare, her tamed wild rabbit, Mendy likes to imagine traveling around the world with Mrs. Roosevelt. But Mr. Hare is no substitute for Mendy’s best friend, Jeffrey, whom her parents have forbidden her to see because she’s black and he’s white. But one night, Mendy notices evidence of trespassers in the secret clearing behind her house. When she sets out to investigate, she uncovers a plot to bomb her high school during a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt! Now Mendy and Jeffrey, who meet in secret, must find a way to foil the Ku Klux Klan before they succeed in their wicked scheme. Based on true events, Circle of Fire is a moving and suspenseful story of friendship and race relations in the segregated South. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
  • Mystery of the Dark Tower

    Evelyn Coleman

    eBook (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, July 8, 2014)
    A young girl’s life changes forever when she investigates a mystery with the help of writers, artists, and musicians in 1920s HarlemBessie Coulter has no idea why her father spirits her and her brother, Eddie, away from their home in Burlington, North Carolina, in the middle of the night, leaving their sick mother behind. But from the moment she steps off the train at Grand Central Station, she’s captivated by this teeming, colorful city that’s both scary and exciting. Although Harlem is a thrilling place, Bessie misses her mother and can’t get used to living with her two aunts. She’s lonely and homesick, especially when her father begins going out with a beautiful, well-dressed woman. Desperate to find out what’s going on, Bessie launches an investigation that takes Eddie and her into a world of artists, jazz musicians, and writers, in search of a strange place called the Dark Tower. With the help of their next-door neighbor Lillian Moore and a Caribbean hoodoo woman named Miss Flo, Bessie is determined to uncover the mystery and get her family back together. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
  • Circle of Fire

    Evelyn Coleman

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, Aug. 1, 2001)
    When Mandy discovers that members of the KKK are using her secret forest clearing to plan a bombing of the nearby Highlander School during a speech by Eleanor Roosevelt, she must race against time to thwart the Klansmen's evil plot, in a thrilling mystery set in Tennessee in 1958. Simultaneous.
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  • Born In Sin

    Evelyn Coleman

    Hardcover (Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, March 1, 2001)
    With her mom working crazy hours at a dilapidated motel and her sister on welfare, fourteen-year-old Keisha is determined to attend Avery University for a precollege premed program but is instead sent to a summer program for at-risk kids where she discovers a passion for swimming, in a novel that details the many challenges one must face to succeed.
  • Circle of Fire

    Evelyn Coleman

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Jan. 1, 2009)
    In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
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  • Mystery of Dark Tower

    Evelyn Coleman

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Jan. 1, 2009)
    In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with their aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
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  • Born In Sin

    Evelyn Coleman

    Mass Market Paperback (Simon Pulse, Jan. 1, 2003)
    Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.
  • Circle of Fire

    Evelyn Coleman

    Hardcover (Amer Girl Pub, Aug. 1, 2001)
    When Mandy discovers that members of the KKK are using her secret forest clearing to plan a bombing of the nearby Highlander School during a speech by Eleanor Roosevelt, she must race against time to thwart the Klansmen's evil plot, in a thrilling mystery set in Tennessee in 1958. Simultaneous.
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  • Mystery of Dark Tower

    Evelyn Coleman

    Paperback (Skyview Books, Jan. 1, 2009)
    In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
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  • Shadows on Society Hill: An Addy Mystery

    Evelyn Coleman

    Paperback (American Girl, Aug. 16, 1828)
    Addy Mystery