McKissack, Patricia

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 story of the leaders of slave revolts from Colonial Times to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Stories of numerous slave revolts in American history.

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

A boy learns that the truth is often stretched on the Bayou Clapateaux, and gets to tell his own verison of a bayou tale when he goes fishing.

The story of the leaders of slave revolts from Colonial Times to the Emancipation Proclamation.