My Books
Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America's Game (Candlewick 2012). My newest book's release is scheduled for January 24, 2012. It's a story about the 1948 World Series and Larry Doby, an outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, the first African American player in the American League.
Two Roads (Bookcraft 1994; Deseret Book, 2007)
This novel is the story of two friends, Jared and Rob, and how their lives are thrown into divergent paths when their mutual friend, Leisel, is killed in a reckless car accident.
Fatherhood, Football, and Turning Forty (Bookcraft, 1995)
This is a collection of essays that reflect on my experiences, including the transformation into a forty-year-old man.
Presenting Mildred D. Taylor (Twayne, 1999)
This is a biography of Mildred D. Taylor, one of the leading writers for young adults ever since her masterwork, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, won the Newbery Medal, the American Library Association’s highest honor for young adult literature, in 1977.
Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Dial, 2002)
This historical novel is set around the murder of Emmett Till, a crime which prompted a national outcry in 1955 and served as one of the triggers for the Civil Rights Movement. Told through the eyes of a white teenage boy, this book describes the boy's series of revelations about his family and other people of the town, and he forms a clearer view of the evils of racism, and the values he hopes to live up to. Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel.
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (Dial 2003)
Using historical photographs, first-person accounts, and other researched material, this nonfiction tells the story of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till and of the trial of his killers. It places the event in its proper historical context. Named one of the top 100 books of the decade by the American Library Association.
More Than a Game: Sports Literature for Young Adults (Scarecrow, 2004)
For teachers and librarians, this book presents a history of sports literature for teens along with a detailed overview of all kinds of sports books for today’s teen readers.
“How I Came to Write:" LDS Authors for Young Adults (Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 2007)
Edited with Jesse S. Crisler, this is a collection of autobiographical sketches by more than 50 Mormon authors, including Stephenie Meyer, Shannon Hale, and Orson Scott Card.
Teaching the Selected Works of Mildred D. Taylor (Heinemann, 2007)
This is a thorough guide of background information and teaching suggestions for teachers using Mildred D. Taylor’s wonderful historical fiction.
Thurgood Marshall: Up Close (Viking 2008)
Published on the 100th anniversary of Marshall’s birth, this is a biography of Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights lawyer and activist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. A Junior Library Guild Premium Selection.
Two Roads (Bookcraft 1994; Deseret Book, 2007)
This novel is the story of two friends, Jared and Rob, and how their lives are thrown into divergent paths when their mutual friend, Leisel, is killed in a reckless car accident.
Fatherhood, Football, and Turning Forty (Bookcraft, 1995)
This is a collection of essays that reflect on my experiences, including the transformation into a forty-year-old man.
Presenting Mildred D. Taylor (Twayne, 1999)
This is a biography of Mildred D. Taylor, one of the leading writers for young adults ever since her masterwork, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, won the Newbery Medal, the American Library Association’s highest honor for young adult literature, in 1977.
Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Dial, 2002)
This historical novel is set around the murder of Emmett Till, a crime which prompted a national outcry in 1955 and served as one of the triggers for the Civil Rights Movement. Told through the eyes of a white teenage boy, this book describes the boy's series of revelations about his family and other people of the town, and he forms a clearer view of the evils of racism, and the values he hopes to live up to. Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel.
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (Dial 2003)
Using historical photographs, first-person accounts, and other researched material, this nonfiction tells the story of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till and of the trial of his killers. It places the event in its proper historical context. Named one of the top 100 books of the decade by the American Library Association.
More Than a Game: Sports Literature for Young Adults (Scarecrow, 2004)
For teachers and librarians, this book presents a history of sports literature for teens along with a detailed overview of all kinds of sports books for today’s teen readers.
“How I Came to Write:" LDS Authors for Young Adults (Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 2007)
Edited with Jesse S. Crisler, this is a collection of autobiographical sketches by more than 50 Mormon authors, including Stephenie Meyer, Shannon Hale, and Orson Scott Card.
Teaching the Selected Works of Mildred D. Taylor (Heinemann, 2007)
This is a thorough guide of background information and teaching suggestions for teachers using Mildred D. Taylor’s wonderful historical fiction.
Thurgood Marshall: Up Close (Viking 2008)
Published on the 100th anniversary of Marshall’s birth, this is a biography of Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights lawyer and activist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. A Junior Library Guild Premium Selection.
