Joyce Viola Hansen is an American writer and retired schoolteacher. She has earned recognition for her books for children and youth, particularly her historical fiction and non-fiction works about African-American history.
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Which way freedom?
1986
ISBN 9780802766366
Out from This Place
1992
ISBN 9780380714094
One True Friend
2005
ISBN 9780618609918
Yellow Bird and Me
2005
ISBN 9780618611164
Women of hope
1998
ISBN 9780590939737
The Gift-Giver
2005
ISBN 9780547346205
Women of Hope African Americans Who Made a Difference
2007
ISBN 9780590939744