Plain City

by Virginia Hamilton

Published 1 October 1993
Hamilton is at her finest in this bittersweet story of a 12-year-old girl's search for the truth about her own past and her missing father. Brimming with raw emotion, the novel is set in the Midwestern town of Plain City--where a riverfront collection of houses on stilts is home to young Buhlaire and her fragmented family.

White Romance

by Virginia Hamilton

Published 31 December 1987
As her all-black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and becomes romantically involved with a drug dealer.