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Patricia C. McKissack (née Carwell; August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was a prolific African-American children's writer. [1] She was the author of more than 100 books, including Dear America books A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl; Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North; and Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl.
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Books by Patricia McKissack" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 is a 2000 book by Patricia McKissack about Queen Anna Nzinga as a girl told through fictitious diary entries based on real historical events. It is part of the book series The Royal Diaries .
The Clone Codes is a 2010 science fiction novel by American writers Patricia and Fredrick McKissack.It is about a girl, Leanna, who lives in 22nd century America where human clones and cyborgs are treated like second-class citizens, and what happens when she discovers that her parents are activists and that she is a clone.
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth is a 2000 picture book written by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Giselle Potter. It is about a girl, Libby Louise, who decides to only tell the truth, the problems this causes, and her eventual understanding about the need for empathy and kindness in some situations.
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters is a 2006 book by Patricia McKissack, and illustrated by Andre Carrilho, published by Schwartz & Wade Books. It is a collection of tales based on oral stories that McKissack heard from her grandfather and his friends when she was a child.
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color is a 1998 book by Patricia McKissack.Set in 19th century South Carolina, it is about a freed slave, Price Jeffries, who uses Bible stories from the Old Testament to answer questions that his daughter, Charlotte, poses about the things she sees around her.
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts is a 1996 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack.. It tells the life stories of a number of people involved in abolitionism in the Americas including Joseph Cinqué, Toussaint Louverture, Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Denmark Vesey, John Brown, Cato, and the Maroons.