Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
3 books here
Because We Are
Picture book · ages 5–8 · 560L · 1983
Mildred Pitts Walter's quiet, unsentimental look at how a child learns to see the humanity in people he'd overlooked—grounded in 1980s urban life and told without preaching.
Mississippi Challenge
Nonfiction · ages 9–12 · 820L · 1996
A rigorous, unflinching introduction to the Civil Rights Movement through Mississippi—Pitts Walter centers Black activists and organizers, not white saviors, which is rare and essential for this age group.
Trouble's Child
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 780L · 1985
A quietly powerful novel about a girl caught between two worlds; Walter doesn't romanticize either one, and Trouble's internal conflict feels genuinely unresolved in a way that respects the reader's intelligence.