McKissack, Patricia C

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The Dark-Thirty

A collection of ghost stories with African AMerican themes, designed to be told during the dark-thirty - the half-hour before sunset - when ghosts seem all too believable.

A Friendship for Today

Rosemary Pattersen is about to make history. She is among the first African American students in her town to atend what once was an all-white school. Rosemary is ready for the challange, but when her best friend is diagnosed with Polio, she must face the first daty of school alone.

Mirandy and Brother Wind

The Dark-Thirty

A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the dark-thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

The Dark-Thirty

A collection of original stories rooted in African-American history and the oral storytelling tradition.

Porch Lies.Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters

2006
Porch Lies: tales of slicksters, tricksters, and other wily characters.

Black diamond

the story of the Negro baseball leagues
1996
Traces the history of baseball in the Negro Leagues and its great heroes, including Monte Irwin, Buck Leonard, and Cool Papa Bell.

Goin' someplace special

2001
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.

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