McKissack, Pat

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Tall Phil and Small Bill

  • McKissack, Pat
1987
What if you could change places with somebody and live as they live? Would it be better or worse than home?.

A real winner

  • McKissack, Pat
1987
Chip wonders how to handle his problem with the bully, William.

A long hard journey

the story of the Pullman porter
  • McKissack, Pat
1989

Mirandy and Brother Wind

  • McKissack, Pat
To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.
Cover image of Mirandy and Brother Wind

The Aztec

Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 07/18/2017 - 08:37

Discusses the Aztec Indians, their history, religion, language, customs, and final days.

A picture of Freedom

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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.

The honest-to-goodness truth

  • McKissack, Pat
2000
After promising never to lie, Libby learns that it's not always necessary to blurt out the whole truth either.

Bugs!

  • McKissack, Pat
1988
Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.

A song for Harlem

  • McKissack, Pat
2008
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.

Color me dark

the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North
  • McKissack, Pat
2000
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.

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