She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday, NAACP Image Awards for Moses and for Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for The Legendary Miss Lena Horne, and an SCBWI Golden Kite and We Need Diverse Books Walter Award for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library. Courageous, compassionate, and deeply religious, Harriet Tubman, with her bravery and relentless pursuit of freedom, is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.Ĭarole Boston Weatherford has written more than fifty books, including the Caldecott Honor recipients Freedom in Congo Square Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one. In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Taking with her only her faith, she must creep through woods with hounds at her feet, sleep for days in a potato hole, and trust people who could have easily turned her in. I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free.īorn into slavery, Harriet Tubman hears these words from God one summer night and decides to leave her husband and family behind and escape. In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and bestselling artist Kadir Nelson offer a resounding, reverent tribute to Harriet Tubman, the woman who earned the name Moses for her heroic role in the Underground Railroad. In these and other stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores with bloodcurdling insight the ties that bind-or worse.A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Award Winner And the children of a BTK-style serial killer struggle to decode the patterns behind their father’s seemingly random bad acts, as well as their own, in 'Bad Habits.' In 'Valentine, July Heat Wave' a man prepares a gruesome surprise for the wife determined to leave him. Meanwhile, a businessman desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in 'Suicide Watch' must determine whether the horrifying tale his junkie son tells him about the boy’s whereabouts is a confession or a sick test. In 'The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza' a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend’s death-and what her father is capable of.

Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense is a short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates which comprises shorter works in a darker genre. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966–2006

Moses by carole boston weatherford