Biography;

Writer.  Born–June 18, 1961, Tuskegee.  Parents– Arthur and Truzetta Johnson.  Education–Kent State.  Child development worker, VISTA,  Ravenna, Ohio; freelance writer of children’s books, after 1989.  Member Authors Guild, Authors League of America. Winner of many awards including the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, 1991; Coretta Scott King Honor Book designation, 1991,1998; Coretta Scott King Author Award, 1993, 1998, 2004; Michael J. Printz Award, 2004.

Sources;

Something about the Author; Contemporary Authors online

Publications;

All Different Now.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2014.

The Aunt in Our House.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1996.

Bird.  New York:  Dial Books, 2004.

A Certain October.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2012.

A Cool Moonlight.  New York:  Dial Books, 2003.

Daddy Calls Me Man.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1997.

The Day Ray Got Away.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Do Like Kyla.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1990.

Down the Winding Road.  DK Ink, 2000.

The First Part Last.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2003.

The Girl Who Wore Snakes.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1993.

Gone from Home:  Short Takes.  New York: Dell, 2001.

Heaven.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Humming Whispers.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1995.

I Dream of Trains.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Joshua by the Sea.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1994.

Joshua’s Night Whispers.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1994.

Julius.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1993.

Just Like Josh Gibson.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2003.

The Leaving Morning.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1992.

Lily Brown’s Paintings.  New York: Orchard Books, 2007.

Looking for Red.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Lottie Paris and the Best Place.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2013′

Lottie Paris Lives Here.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Mama Bird, Baby Birds.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1994.

Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street.  New York:  Random House, 1999.

One of Three.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1991.

The Other Side: Shorter Poems.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1998.

Rain Feet.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1994.

The Rolling Store.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1997.

Running Back to Ludie.  New York:  Orchard Books, 2002.

Shoes Like Miss Alice’s.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1995.

Songs of Faith.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1998.

Sweet, Hereafter.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2010.

A Sweet Smell of Roses.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Tell Me a Story, Mama.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1989.

Those Building Men.  New York: Scholastic, 1999.

Toning the Sweep.  New York: Orchard Books, 1993; rpt., 2003.

Violet’s Music.  New York:  Dial Books, 2004.

The Wedding.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1999.

When I Am Old with You.  New York:  Orchard Books, 1990.

When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street.  New York: Random House, 1999.

Wind Flyers.  New York:  Simon &Schuster, 2007.