[2] Her historical fiction focuses on what she describes as “holes in history,” little-known yet extraordinary stories of African Americans and minority groups in the United States.
[2] Her childhood inspiration, read to her in school in Germany, was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie.
[3] Her Willie Pearl series won a 1991 CRABbery Award (Prince George's Memorial Library) and a 1993 Children's Literary Award for Multicultural Publishing, and A Strong Right Arm was a Junior Library Guild selection and was praised by filmmaker Ken Burns.
[5] Kirkus Reviews calls the book “at once unique, yet sadly representative of the hold racism had on every facet of society,” and that “Green has wisely allowed her to tell the story in her own voice… “[6] For that book, Green practiced various pitches and developed a close relationship with Mamie Johnson.
Green's latest project is a book about African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux.