Virginia Hamilton Books In Order
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Publication Order of Dies Drear Chronicles Books
The House of Dies Drear | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mystery of Drear House | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Justice and Her Brothers Books
Justice and Her Brothers | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dustland | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gathering | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Zeely | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Planet of Junior Brown | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
M.C. Higgins, the Great | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arilla Sun Down | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jahdu | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Little Love | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Junius Over Far | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A White Romance | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bells of Christmas | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drylongso | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plain City | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jaguarundi | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bluish | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl Who Spun Gold | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Pieces | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The People Could Fly | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
The Time-Ago Tales of Jahdu | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time-Ago Lost: More Tales of Jahdu | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Beginning | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Way | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The All Jahdu Storybook | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Her Stories | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When Birds Could Talk And Bats Could Sing | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ring Of Tricksters | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
African American Folktales | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Paul Robeson | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthony Burns | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Many Thousand Gone | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Speeches, Essays, And Conversations | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Harper Trophy Books
Hurry Home, Candy | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadrach | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Witch | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Along Came a Dog | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grizzly | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Noonday Friends | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventeenth-Street Gang | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunted Mountain | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Park Book | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sign Of The Chrysanthemum | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Billion for Boris | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Stranger Came Ashore | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wicked One | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Runaway to Freedom | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Poem stew | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Switch | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Desdemona-Twelve Going on Desperate | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hey World, Here I Am! | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stonewords | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crush | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Good Night, Maman | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pilot Down, Presumed Dead | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Land I Lost | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late? | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jerry Pinkney as Illustrator Books
Tales from Africa | (0) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ugly Duckling | (1843) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Match Girl | (1845) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Education of Henry Adams | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Early Autumn | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Flowering of New England | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lolita | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rabbit, Run | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventures of Spider | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year Around Book | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Traveling Frog | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Book of Shapes & Sizes | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Clock Museum | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Folktales and Fairytales of Africa | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kostas the Rooster | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Twin Witches of Fingle Fu | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish. | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Babushka and the Pig | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Porcupine and the Tiger | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cora Annett's Homerhenry | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King's Ditch | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Planet of Junior Brown | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Femi and Old Grandaddie | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
JD | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kasho and the Twin Flutes. | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prince Littlefoot | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mickey and Minny | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Minu | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roots of Time | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Song of the Trees | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wuthering Heights | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Yagua Days | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Winthrop Covenant | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gulliver's Travels | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected plays | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
History of Tom Jones a Founding | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tonweya and the Eagles | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
These Thirteen | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Adventures of Spider | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Count on Your Fingers African Style | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Covenant | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jahdu | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rabbit Redux | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monster Myths of Ancient Greece | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Apples On A Stick | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Patchwork Quilt | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Half a Moon and One Whole Star | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mirandy and Brother Wind | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Lion of Zion Street | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Tales of Uncle Remus | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Talking Eggs | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Turtle in July | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home Place | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pretend You're a Cat | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In for Winter, Out for Spring | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Their Eyes Were Watching God | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
David's Songs | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Back Home | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drylongso | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Starlit Somersault Downhill | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Want to Be | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Shoes for Silvia | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sunday Outing | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Henry | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jungle Book | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tanya's Reunion | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sam and the Tigers | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hired Hand | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Journeys with Elijah | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aesop's Fables | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goin' Someplace Special | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Noah's Ark | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nightingale | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
God Bless the Child | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Old African | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven Book and CD | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moon Over Star | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sweethearts of Rhythm | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Starlit Snowfall | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The First Adventures of Spider | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Plain Sight | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Boot | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Home in the Barn | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Mermaid | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Walk in the Woods | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Travellers in Time: Past, Present, and to Come | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of the Mold | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Virginia Hamilton is a bestselling and award-winning young adult and children’s fiction author.
The author was born in 1934, just on the edge of the Great Depression. She was born to Kenneth James and Eta Belle Hamilton and spent most of her childhood in Yellow Springs Ohio, as part of a large extended family.
Her mother’s family had lived in the southwestern Ohio farmlands for years starting in the 1850s. Levi Pery her grandfather had come to the state as a child through the Underground Railroad.
As a child, her parents encouraged her to write and read widely and this is perhaps the root of her love for storytelling. Virginia managed to snag a full scholarship when she was top of her high school class and was called to attend Antioch College.
In 1956, she decided to transfer to the Columbus-based Ohio State University and studied creative writing and literature.
Upon graduating, Virginia Hamilton moved to New York City where she worked all manner of jobs. Among her odd jobs included nightclub singer, cost accountant, and museum receptionist.
But all this time she never let go of the dream of becoming a published author. Virginia would later on go to the New School for Social Research, where she studied fiction writing under one of the founders of Atheneum Press – Hiram Haydn.
It was in New York that she met Arnold Adoff the poet whom she married in 1960. Her husband was a teacher and even though they got married, she spent most of her time writing until she got her children.
In 1969, Arnold and Virginia built their home in Yellow Springs on a few acres of the old Perry Hamilton ranch and embarked on a journey of achievement and serious literary work.
During her lifetime, the author published more than forty works across different genres that included biographies, picture books, realistic novels, folktales, science fiction, and mysteries.
Woven into her novels is a deep concern for generational legacy, tradition, and memory, particularly as they defined the lives of Black Americans. Virginia Hamilton used to describe her work as Liberation Literature.
Over the years, Virginia Hamilton won many awards including the highest honor on the international level bestowed on an author of children’s fiction and illustrator in the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing.
She is also the winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association. The organization gives the award to authors who have distinguished themselves in writing children’s fiction.
Hamilton made history in 1995 when she was the first children’s fiction author to win a MacArthur Fellowship. Apart from the Newberry Medal and the National Book Award that she won in 1975, she is also the winner of the Boston Globe, Coretta Scott King, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
She made her last public appearance when she was awarded a lifetime achievement de Grunmmond Medal by The University of Southern Mississippi. She would continue to lecture, travel, and write while living in New York City until she died in 2002, soon after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Virginia Hamilton posthumously published three more novels after her death.
“Justice and Her Brothers” by Virginia Hamilton is the story of identical twins Levi and Thomas and their young sibling Justice. Justice is increasingly becoming aware of how different yet similar her brothers are.
She has also been growing awareness of her own powers that connect her to other people in her world. The work is something of a children’s work written for adults as the author makes very sophisticated references that he intersperses with childlike stuff.
For instance, there is a fantasy parapsychological element that is interspersed with things such as riding down treacherous hills on a bike, a snake collecting contest, and how to cope when parents are not at home because of school or work.
One of the brothers turns out to be a full-blown psychopath which is unnerving at times. You sometimes get a feeling that he may just do some terrible things He ends up doing some awful things even though that felt like a taste of things to come.
Ending on a cliffhanger it is a confusing and weird book that will make its readers look forward to reading what comes next.
Virginia Hamilton’s novel “Dustland” tells the story of Dorian, Justice, Levi, and Thomas who together are an intertime and psychic interstellar group that refers to themselves as “The Unit.”
They have to become “The Unit” if they are to traverse time and space because they would be captured by the “t-beings” if they do not. Upon landing in “Dustland,” which is a place full of dust just as its name implies, they learn that this would be earth’s future.
Wandering around, Thomas is frustrated as Justice is becoming very controlling. Justice has become a being known as “The Watcher,” who is full of some dark energy.
The children soon encounter all manner of bizarre creatures that have telepathic powers but speak American English from the 1980s.
“The Unit” is held together by their paranormal sensory powers as they seek different ways to get out of a dark and very barren world full of all manner of dangers. They are soon torn apart by jealousy and getting back to the Earth and the present becomes an even more difficult challenge.
“The Gathering” by Virginia Hamilton the siblings are back in Dustland, hoping to save their semi-human, half lion, half dog, and semi-human flying dinosaur creature Mal.
But there is dark energy interested in keeping them stuck in Duastland and Mal their telepathic friend seems to have figured this out. He now intends to help them get out of Dustland.
They finally escape and get to a nicer place known as Sona, where they are met by Celestor.
The latter is some kind of cyborg who is living in Sona with a giant creating machine that is responsible for the birth of several spaceships and machines alongside a giant computer machine that is telepathic.
The most bizarre creature is “The Watcher,” which comes from Justice but is a completely separate entity that has been living in her brain ever since she was a child.
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