According to Wikipedia, Patricia C. "Pat" McKissack was a prolific African American children's writer. She was the author of over 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. She also wrote a novel for The Royal Diaries series: Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba. Notable standalone works include Flossie & the Fox , The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural , and Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? . What is Given from the Heart was published posthumously in 2019.
Patricia McKissack's Published Works
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Published Papers
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? (1992)
(29)
Mirandy and Brother Wind (1988)
(26)
Goin' Someplace Special (2001)
(18)
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (1994)
(15)
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa (1993)
(12)
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust (1995)
(12)
Can You Imagine (1997)
(9)
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1992)
(7)
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl (1997)
(7)
Jesse Jackson: A Biography (1989)
(5)
Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba (2000)
(3)
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North (2000)
(3)
Zora Neale Hurston : writer and storyteller (1992)
(3)
Ma Dear's Aprons (1997)
(2)
Mary McLeod Bethune: A Great American Educator (1985)
(2)
To Establish Justice (2004)
(2)
Langston Hughes : great American poet (1992)
(2)
Paul Robeson : a voice to remember (2001)
(1)
The World in 1492 (1992)
(1)
Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1998)
(1)
Monkey-Monkey's Trick: Based on an African Folk Tale (1988)
(1)
Abby Takes a Stand (2005)
(1)
Itching and Twitching: A Nigerian Folktale (2003)
(1)
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (1994)
(1)
The Civil Rights Movement in America from 1865 to the present (1987)
(0)
