New York: Bloomsbury, (2019). SIGNED hardcover - A reissue of this Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winning author's first book, originally published in 2010, about an 8th grade girl's adjustment to changes in her life. "Serenity is good at keeping secrets, and she's got a whole lifetime's worth of them. Her mother is dead, her father is gone, and starting life over at her grandparents' house is strange." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Includes recipe. 223 pp. plus 3 pp ads. ISBN: 978-1547601738.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Years after Guy Phersson left Minnesota and became a sucessful entrepreneur in California's Silicon Valley, he gets a letter from his grandfather saying "come now. Trouble." A coming of age story set in Minnesota's farm country in the 1950s, a look at who owns the land, and Indian rights, and a book about learning to be able to become fully human. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-671619772.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel - written for young adults, this is a coming-of-age story set in a poor Houston neighborhood, a book which gives a voice to children who suffer abuse in silence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-689824688.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). First edition - African American author's second novel - written for young adults, set in a poor Houston neighborhood. 300 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). First edition - African American author's first novel - written for young adults, this is a coming-of-age story set in a poor Houston neighborhood, a book which gives a voice to children who suffer abuse in silence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-689824688.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition - Set in Sherman, New York in the spring of 1954 , Tamara and her family begin to settle into their farmhouse. The author's first novel, the story of a young girl's coming to age and the fears she encounters with a mother ill with tuberculosis and a father who escapes into his art. 275 pp.

New York: Scholastic, (2002). Young adult novel about a boy obsessed with fire. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-439-09013X.

New York: Scholastic, (2002). First edition - Young adult novel about a boy obsessed with fire (issued as a trade paperback original). 195 pp. ISBN: .

New York: Putnam, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Story of three girls in Queens, NY in 1996, trying to make sense of an unpredictable world, united by the lyrics of Tupac Shakur and their confidence in the way he keeps coming back even after being shot. A Newbery Honor book, and an ALA Notable Book.SIGNED on the title page. 151 pp. ISBN: 9780399246548.

New York: Harper & Row, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a series of interconnected short stories. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0162430.

New York: Harper & Row, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a series of interconnected short stories. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0162430.