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A White Romance

Virginia Hamilton

Paperback (Point, April 1, 1998)

As her all-black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley Barbour befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and she becomes romantically involved with a handsome white classmate who is a drug dealer. Reprint.

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The Gathering

Virginia Hamilton

Hardcover (William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1981)

Justice and her brothers, the first of a new race with extraordinary powers, return to Dustland in order to destroy the force that retards the growth of their advanced civilization.

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The House Of Dies Drear

Virginia Hamilton

Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 1, 2006)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home, which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

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Jahdu

Virginia Hamilton

Library Binding (William Morrow, )

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M.C. Higgins, The Great

Virginia Hamilton

Library Binding (Turtleback Books, May 1, 2006)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, 15-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. A Newbery Medal Winner & ALA Notable Children's Book.

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Justice and Her Brothers

Virginia Hamilton

Library Binding (William Morrow & Co, Oct. 1, 1978)

An 11-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers.

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Virginia Hamilton Reads Zeely

Virginia Hamilton

Audio Cassette (Caedmon Audio Cassette, June 15, 1974)

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Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Virginia Hamilton

Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 1993)

"In 1854, Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old black man, was put on trial in Bostonunder the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Retelling the events of the trial, whichpolarized the city, Hamilton shows the kind of political issue which broughtthe nation to fever pitch in the decade before the Civil War. Hamilton'sbiography is actually a 'docudrama' which centers on the often silent, mistreated, and humbled runaway slave. The insights Hamilton gives into thepersonal side of slavery are moving and unforgettable."--(starred) "SchoolLibrary Journal." "Does exactly what good biography for children ought todo: makes them feel what it was like to be that person in thosetimes."--(starred) "Horn Book. "