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_______.1973. Ego-tripping. Lawrence Hill Books. Chicago: ISBN: 1555652062X

_______1971. Spin a Soft Black Song. Hill and Wang. New York: ISBN: 0809087952

________ 1980. Vacation Time: Poems for Children. William Morrow & Company. New York: ISBN: 0688036570

_____. 1994. Knoxville, Tennessee. Scholastic. New York: ISBN: 0590470744.

_____. 1996. The Genie in the Jar. Henry Holt & Company. New York: ISBN:  0805060766

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