Mary Mcleod Bethune, A Great American Educator

Patricia C. McKissack

Macmillan

Nettie Jo's Friends (Follet Bound School/Library Edition)

Children's Books

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Run Away Home

scholastic

Monkey - Monkey's Trick

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt HMH

Monkey's Trick

Abby Takes a Stand

"With amusing anecdotes and colorful quotes, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, Jr., take the reader through the extraordinary history of the Negro Leagues, one of baseball's most moving and fascinating stories.

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues

Biographies & Memoirs

Fredrick McKissack, Jr.

Community & Culture

Scholastic. Inc.

Think of yourself as a time traveler, a visitor who has just gone back to a Virginia plantation in 1859 at Christmastime. The Big House is awash with light and color. Elegance and beauty dazzle your eyes at every turn. There's plenty of food and warm hospitality. But, the people seem uneasy. Listen to their conversations. They're talking about John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, slave insurrections, secession, and possible war! Now, take a walk to the slave Quarters. There is no grandeur here. The wretchedness is staggering. People live in cramped one-room cabins with dirt floors. Yet, there's a celebration going on - eating, singing, and dancing. Does this mean the slaves are happy and contented? No. Listen carefully to their songs and stories. They are mostly of the hope that freedom is coming soon! The events and customs we describe in the book are historically accurate. The conversations and dialogue are real; so is the setting. However, everything we use could not and would not have happened on one plantation. For this reason, we recreated a 'Big House' and 'Quarters' based on real people, events, and places located in Virginia, 1850. Why Virginia? Because, the Jamestown Colony is where the first American Christmas was observed, and where many of our present holiday traditions began. Remember while you're reading that this is more than a seasonal account. It is the story of a region and its people on the eve of a war. When that war ended, the great plantations were never the same (taken from the author's note).

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Black Hands, White Sails

Frederick L. McKissack

Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl (Dear America)

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