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  • Jaguarundi

    Virginia Hamilton, Floyd Cooper

    Paperback (Blue Sky Press, Feb. 1, 1997)
    Although all the other animals also feel threatened by the encroachment of humans, only Rundi and Coati journey northward in search of a safer place to live. Reissue.
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  • The Gathering

    Virginia Hamilton

    Mass Market Paperback (Avon Books, Sept. 1, 1981)
    A tale about four unusual children gifted with supersensory powers moves between the present and the future
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  • The Bells of Christmas

    Virginia Hamilton, Lambert Davis

    Hardcover (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Oct. 15, 1989)
    Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”--School Library Journal
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  • The House of Dies Drear

    Virginia Hamilton, Eros Keith

    Paperback (Simon Pulse, Oct. 1, 1984)
    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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  • Paul Robeson: The Life and Times of a Free Black Man

    Virginia Hamilton

    Hardcover (Harpercollins, March 1, 1975)
    A biography of the world famous actor and singer who lost much of his popularity when he became a champion of communism.
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  • Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

    Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, Jan. 4, 1993)
    Illus. in black-and-white. In this companion volume to the award-winning The People Could Fly, Virginia Hamilton traces the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad in America. Thirty-five inspiring stories describe ingenious escapes, desperate measures, and daring protests of former slaves.
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  • A White Romance

    Virginia Hamilton

    Paperback (Sandpiper, Aug. 1, 1989)
    A chilling, modern love story--love intertwined with high-school politics, drug deals, addiction, heavy metal concerts, and the pressures of sexual involvement--by one of the most distinguished writers of our time.
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  • Dustland

    Virginia Hamilton

    Hardcover (William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1980)
    Four children, all possessing extraordinary mental powers, are projected far into the future to a bleak region called Dustland.
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  • Dustland

    Virginia Hamilton

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Feb. 1, 1998)
    Bound together by their extrasensory powers, Thomas, Dorian, Justice, and Levi journey to a future land where three-legged, humanlike creatures desperately seek water and a way out of their barren world. Reprint.
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  • The House of Dies Drear

    Virginia Hamilton

    Library Binding (Paw Prints, Aug. 11, 2008)
    An absorbing mystery (about a Negro boy's house, once part of the Underground Railroad), enriched with perceptive insights into certain aspects of the Negro American's heritage.--Booklist. An ALA Notable Children's Book. A School Library Journal Best of the Best. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
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  • The Gathering

    Virginia Hamilton

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, March 1, 1998)
    In the third book of The Justice Cycle by an award-winning author, four youths with special powers battle an evil force known as Mal as they lead the Slakers out of the Dustland and into a high-tech city of domes. Reprint.
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  • White Romance A

    Virginia Hamilton

    Hardcover (Philomel, Oct. 23, 1987)
    As her all-black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and becomes romantically involved with a drug dealer.
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