Personal Information
- Born in 1956
Included Titles By Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Before John was a Jazz Giant (2008)
- Carolina Parakeet, The (2005)
- Freedom on the Menu (2004)
- Princeville (2001)
- Sink or Swim (1999)
Here are some other books by the author:
Juvenile Fiction
• My Favorite Toy, Writers & Readers Publishing, 1994
• Remember Me, African American Family Press, 1994
• Juneteenth Jamboree, Lee and Low, 1995
• Grandma and Me, Writers & Readers Publishing, 1997
• Me and the Family Tree, Writers & Readers Publishing, 1997
• Mighty Menfolk, Writers & Readers Publishing, 1997
• Dear Mr. Rosenwald, Scholastic, 2006
• Birmingham, 1963, Wordsong, 2007
• Champions on the Bench, Dial, 2007
• Becoming Billie Holiday, Wordsong, 2008
• The Library Ghost, Upstart Books, 2008
• Sugar Hill, Albert Whitman & Company, 2014
•In Your Hands, Simon and Schuster, 2017
Non-Fiction
• The African-American Struggle for Legal Equality in American History, Enslow, 2000
• Somebody's Knocking at Your Door, Haworth Pastoral, 2001
• Great African-American Lawyers, Enslow, 2005
• A Negro League Scrapbook, Boyds Mills, 2005
• Moses, Hyperion, 2006
• Jesse Owens, Walker, 2007
• I, Matthew Henson, Walker, 2008
• Racing Against the Odds, Marshall Cavendish, 2008
• First Pooch, Marshall Cavendish, 2009
• Michelle Obama, Marshall Cavendish, 2010
• Obama: Only in America, Marshall Cavendish, 2010
• Oprah: The Little Speaker, Marshall Cavendish, 2010
• Leontyne Price, Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
• Gordon Parks, Albert Whitman & Company, 2015
• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Candlewick Press, 2015
• Freedom in Congo Square, Little Bee Books, 2016
•The Legendary Miss Lena Horne, Simon and Schuster, 2017
•Dorothea Lange, Albert Whitman and Company, 2017
•Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library, Scholastic, 2017
•Be a King, Bloomsbury USA, 2018
•How Sweet the Sound, Simon and Schuster, 2018
•The Roots of Rap, little bee books, 2019
Poetry
• The Tan Chanteuse, North Carolina Writers' Network, 1995
• Sidewalk Chalk, North Carolina Writers' Network, 1995
• The Tar Baby on the Soapbox, Methodist College, 1999
• The Sound that Jazz Makes, Walker, 2001
• Jazz Baby, Lee & Low, 2002
• Stormy Blues, Xavier Review, 2002
• Remember the Bridge, Philomel, 2002 (American Association of University Women Award recipient)
• The Beatitudes, Eerdmans, 2010
• You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen, Atheneum Books, 2015
• Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, Candlewick, 2017 (American Association of University Women Award recipient)
N.C. Locations Associated with Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Resided in:
- High Point (City/Town)
- Taught at:
- Fayetteville State University
- High Point University
- Salem College
- Studied at:
- University of North Carolina -Greensboro
- Manuscript Location:
- University of North Carolina -Greensboro
