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

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Dear America

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

[1997]

Language

English

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

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Dear America

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2000.

Language

English

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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.

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

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Dear America

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

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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.

4) Amistad: the story of a slave ship

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Step into reading. Step 4 book

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

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In 1838, a slave ship named the Amistad took hundreds of kidnapped Africans on a long journey across the Atlantic. But the brave captives would not give up their freedom, taking over the ship so they could sail back to their homeland. This History Reader is not to be missed.?Step 4 Readers?use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence.

5) Black diamond: the story of the Negro baseball leagues

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

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

6) Stitchin' and pullin': a Gee's Bend quilt

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

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As a young African American girl pieces her first quilt together, the history of her family, community, and the struggle for justice and freedom in Gee's Bend, Alabama unfolds.