Pat McKissack

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1) A picture of freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Dear America volume 5

Language

English

Description

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In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

2) George Washington Carver: the peanut scientist

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Great African Americans

Lexile measure

560L

Language

English

Description

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Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.

3) Louis Armstrong: jazz musician

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Great African Americans

Language

English

4) Tippy Lemmey

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Ready-for-chapters

Pub. Date

2003

Physical Desc

59 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

5) What is given from the heart

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Schwartz & Wade Books

Pub. Date

[2019]

Edition

First edition.

Lexile measure

AD 660L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

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Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.

6) Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

2000

Lexile measure

820L

Physical Desc

136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.

7) Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Dear America

Pub. Date

2000

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

760L

Physical Desc

218 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

8) Mirandy and Brother Wind

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

1988

Lexile measure

690L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

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Description

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To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

9) Bugs!

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Rookie reader

Pub. Date

2000

Edition

Rev. ed.

Lexile measure

110L

Physical Desc

31 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.

10) The all-I'll-ever-want Christmas doll

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 650L

Physical Desc

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

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During the Depression, three young sisters get one baby doll for Christmas and must find a way to share.

11) Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

1994

Lexile measure

960L

Physical Desc

xi unnumbered pages, 68 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

12) Red-tail angels: the story of the Tuskegee airmen of World War II

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

1995

Lexile measure

1170L

Physical Desc

viii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

13) Sojourner truth: ain't I a woman?

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

1992

Lexile measure

960L

Physical Desc

186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

14) Porch lies: tales of slicksters, tricksters, and other wily characters

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

2006

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

790L

Physical Desc

xii, 146 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

15) Messy Bessey's garden

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Rookie reader

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

31 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Messy Bessey discovers that with proper care her garden will flourish.

16) Goin' someplace special

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

2001

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 730L

Physical Desc

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Language

English

Description

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In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.

17) The honest-to-goodness truth

Author

McKissack, Pat

Pub. Date

2000

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

650L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

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After promising never to lie, Libby learns that it's not always necessary to blurt out the whole truth either.

18) Look to the hills: the diary of Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Dear America

Pub. Date

2004

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

670L

Physical Desc

188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.