Shelia P. Moses

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2004
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Legend of Buddy Bush

    Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Shelia P. Moses’s National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King Honoree, The Legend of Buddy Bush, with this classic novel that’s more relevant than ever.The day Uncle Goodwin “Buddy” Bush came fro...

  • I, Dred Scott

    This nonfiction middle grade book chronicles the inspiring life of a black man born into slavery who never gave up fighting for freedom.Born into slavery in Virginia in the late 1700s, Dred Scott had little to look forward to in life. But on April 6,...

  • Sallie Gal and the Wall-a-Kee Man

    Shelia P. Moses, National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King Award Honor author, debuts on the Scholastic Press list with a heartwarming young chapter book series.

    Sallie Gal admires cousin Wild Cat's hair ribbons that fly in the wind ...

  • The Return of Buddy Bush

    After the death of her grandfather, Pattie Mae Sheals goes to Harlem to visit her sister and experiences an entirely different way of life there, but despite the freedoms of the North, Pattie Mae is determined to track down her uncle and convince him...

  • The Baptism

    When you turn twelve in Occoneechee Neck in Jackson, North Carolina, everything changes. You get to do stuff you couldn't do when you were eleven. And it means it's time to get baptized. Twin brothers Leon and Luke Curry turned twelve last month. ...

  • Joseph

    For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Tough because of Mama's addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because Daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there's no way out once you're living in a homeless shelter in a North Ca...

  • Joseph's Grace

    Joseph’s sophomore year is about to begin, but his new start is a false one. At his father’s request Joseph moved in with Aunt Shirley, Uncle Todd and cousin Jasmine over the summer, to distance himself from his mother’s drug problems and the d...

  • Joseph's Summer

    Joseph's sophomore year is about to begin, but his new start is a false one. At his father's request Joseph moved in with Aunt Shirley, Uncle Todd and cousin Jasmine over the summer, to distance himself from his mother's drug problems and the dangero...

  • The Sittin' Up

    When Mr. Bro. Wiley, Bean's adopted grandfather and the last slave man around, dies in the summer of 1940, Bean and his very best friend Pole are some kind of hurt. Everyone in the Low Meadows is. Despite their grief, they are proud and excited to be...



  • We Were the Fire

    The powerful story of an eleven-year-old Black boy determined to stand up for his rights, who's pulled into the action of the 1963 civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther ...

  • Sharing the Dream

    An inspiring portrait of a monumental day in US history, seen through a child’s eyesAgnes can hardly contain her excitement! She’s headed to the March on Washington. Sitting on her father’s shoulders, she’s awed by the sea of people -- people...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shelia P. Moses has published 11 books.

The next book by Shelia P. Moses, Sharing the Dream, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Shelia P. Moses, Legend of Buddy Bush, was published in January 2004.

No. Shelia P. Moses does not write books in series.
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