McKissack, Pat

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCK

McKissack, Pat

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCK

McKissack, Pat

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCK

McKissack, Pat

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1900

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Y DA 18