Barnes, Derrick

Personal Information

Here are some other books by the author:

Fiction
• Stop, Drop, and Chill, Fitzgerald Books, 2004
• The Low-Down Bad-Day Blues, Fitzgerald Books, 2004
• The Making of Dr. Truelove, Simon and Schuster, 2006
• We Could Be Brothers, Scholastic, 2009
• Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, Agate Bolden, 2017
• The King of Kindergarten, Penguin, 2019
• I Am Every Good Thing, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2020
• The Queen of Kindergarten, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022
• Like Lava in My Veins, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023
• Santa's Gotta Go!, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023
• The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze, Viking Books for Young Readers, 2025
• I Got You, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2025

Ruby and the Booker Boys series
• Brand New School, Brand New Ruby, Scholastic, 2008
• Trivia Queen, 3rd-grade Supreme, Scholastic, 2009
• The Slumber Party Payback, Scholastic, 2008
• Ruby Flips for Attention, Scholastic, 2009

Non-fiction
• Who Got Game? Baseball: Amazing but True Stories!, Workman Publishing, 2020
• Victory. Stand! (with Dawud Anyabwile and Tommie Smith), Norton Young Readers, 2022
• Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing but True Stories!, Workman Kids, 2024

Short Stories & Anthologies
• The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth (with editor Chreyl Willis Hudson and al.), Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020

N.C. Locations Associated with Barnes, Derrick

Resided in:
Charlotte (City/Town)