Hamilton, Virginia

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book (2004)
Wee Winnie Witch’s Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale (2004)
Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl (2003)
Time Pieces: The Book of Times (2002)
The Girl Who Spun Gold (2000)
Bluish (1999)
A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa (1997)
Jaguarundi (1997)
When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends  (1996)
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (1995)
Drylongso (1994)
Plain City (1993)
Many Thousand Gone (1993)
Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World (1990)
The Bells of Christmas (1989)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (1988)
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World (1988)
A White Romance (1987)
The People Could Fly (1985)
A Little Love (1984)
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (1983)
Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed (1983)
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982)
Arilla Sun Down (1979)
M.C. Higgins, the Great (1974)
Paul Robeson: The Life and Times of a Free Black Man (1974)
E. B. Du Bois: A Biography (1972) 
The Planet of Junior Brown (1971)
Zeely (1967)

Cousins Series

Second Cousins (Book 2) (1998)
Cousins (Book 1) (1990)

Jahdu Series

The All Jahdu Storybook (1991)
Jahdu (1980)

Dies Drear Chronicle Series

The Mystery of Drear House (Book 2) (1987)
The House of Dies Drear (Book 1) (1968)

Justice and Her Brothers Series

The Gathering (The Justice Cycle #3) (1981)
Dustland (The Justice Cycle #2) (1980)
Justice and Her Brothers (The Justice Cycle, #1) (1978)