Whispers (1994) Rain Feet (1994) Joshua By The Sea (1994) Shoes Like Miss Alice's (1995) The Aunt in Our House (1996) The Rolling Store (1997) Daddy Calls Me Man (1997) The Wedding (1999) Down the Winding Road (2000) Those Building Men (2001) I Dream of Trains (2003) Just Like Josh Gibson (2004) Violet's Music (2004) A Sweet Smell of Roses (2005) Lily Brown's Paintings (2007) Wind Flyers (2007) Chapterbooks for intermediate grades (3-5) Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street (1999) When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street (2000) Looking For Red (2002) Bird (2004) For older children and young adults Toning the Sweep (1993) Humming Whispers (1995) Songs of Faith (1998) Heaven (novel) (1998) The Other Side, Shorter Poems (1998) Gone From Home: Short Takes (1998) Running Back to Ludie (2001) The First Part Last (2003) Cool Moonlight (2003) Recent Sweet, Hereafter (2010) Day Ray Got Away (2010) Lotte Paris Lives Here (2011) Certain October (2012) Lottie Paris and the Best Place (2013) References External links See also American children's writers African-American children's writers American women children's writers Women writers of young adult literature African-American poets American poets American women poets Kent State University alumni MacArthur Fellows Michael L. Printz Award winners Writers from Ohio People from Kent, Ohio People from Tuskegee, Alabama People from Windham, Ohio 1961 births Living people 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women African-American women writers