Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin, & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American Childhood (2017)
A Million Fish...More or Less (2016)

Never Forgotten (2011)

Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt (2008)

A Friendship For Today (2007)

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll (2007)

Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters (2006) 

Precious and the Boo Hag (2005) 

Mama's Window (2005) 

Loved Best (2005)

Precious and the Boo Hag (2005)

Where Crocodiles Have Wings (2005)

To Establish Justice: Citizenship and the Constitution (2004)

Tippy Lemmey (2003) 

Itching And Twitching (2003) 

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 (2003)

Goin' Someplace Special (2001) 

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (2000) 

Mirandy and Brother Wind (1998) 

Run Away Home (1997)

Ma Dear's Aprons (1997) 

A Million Fish...More or Less (1996) 

All Our Fruits & Vegetables (1995) 

So Who's Dr. Rabbit? (1994)

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1992) 

Nettie Jo's Friends (1989) 

Monkey-Monkey's Trick (1988) 

Flossie and the Fox (1986) 

Who Is Coming? (1986) 

The Maya (1985) 

The Aztec (1985) 

Michael Jackson, Superstar (1984)

Scraps of Time Series

Scraps of Time 1937: The Home-Run King (2008)

Scraps of Time, 1928: A Song for Harlem (2007) 

Scraps of Time 1879: Away West (2006)

Scraps of Time, 1960: Abby Takes a Stand (2005) 

Dear America Series

Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763 (2004) 

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois 1919 (2000) 

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (1997)