Several of Powledge's books are available by mail; e-mail him for details.
Books by Fred Powledge

Books for adults

Free at Last? The Civil Rights Movement and the People who Made It?  (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991). Also in paperback.

The New Adoption Maze: And How To Get Through It (St. Louis: Mosby, 1985).


Fat of the Land (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984). Also in paperback.


A Forgiving Wind: On Becoming a Sailor (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983).


Water: The Nature, Uses, and Future of Our Most Precious and Abused Resource (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982). Also in paperback.


Journeys Through the South (New York: Vanguard, 1979).


The Backpacker's Budget Food Book (New York: David McKay, 1977).


Mud Show: A Circus Season (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976).


Model City: A Test of American Liberalism: One Town's Efforts to Rebuild Itself (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970).


To Change a Child: A Report on the Institute for Developmental Studies (New York: Quadrangle, 1967). Also in paperback.


Black Power/White Resistance: Notes on the New Civil War (Cleveland and New York: World, 1967). Also in paperback.
Books for young readers

Pharmacy in the Forest: How Medicines Are Found in the Natural World (New York: Atheneum, 1998).


Working River (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995).

We Shall Overcome: The Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Scribner's, 1993).


You'll Survive (New York: Scribner's, 1986).


So You're Adopted: A Book About the Experience of Being Adopted (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982).


Born on the Circus (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976).