My Story: Slave Girl

My Story: Slave Girl

Author: Patricia C McKissack

Publisher: Scholastic Non-Fiction

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1407156845

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In the slave quarters of Virginia's cotton plantations, people pray for freedom. Everybody's mind is on freedom. But when will it come?


I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

Author: Joyce Hansen

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0545280907

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Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.


Slave Girl

Slave Girl

Author: Pat McKissack

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781407115160

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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.


Color Me Dark

Color Me Dark

Author: Pat McKissack

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780590511599

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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.


Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)

Author: Ellen Emerson White

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0545415012

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One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, Ellen Emerson White's bestselling VOYAGE ON THE GREAT TITANIC is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Five years ago, Margaret Ann Brady's older brother left her in the care of an orphanage and immigrated to America. When the orphanage receives an unusual request from an American woman looking for a traveling companion, Margaret's teachers agree that she is the perfect candidate to accompany Mrs. Carstairs on the TITANIC, so that once Margaret arrives in New York she will be free to join her brother in Boston. But the TITANIC is destined for tragedy, and Margaret's journey is thrown into a frozen nightmare when the ship collides with an iceberg.


The Drinking Gourd

The Drinking Gourd

Author: F. N. Monjo

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1983-09-07

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0064440427

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The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party -- or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?


A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 (Dear America)

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 (Dear America)

Author: Kathryn Lasky

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0545414970

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Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack's inspiring A PICTURE OF FREEDOM is now back in print with a gorgeous new cover!It's 1859 and Clotee, a twelve-year-old slave, has the most wonderful, terrible secret. She knows that if she shares it with the wrong person, she will face unimaginable consequences. What is her secret? While doing her job of fanning her master's son during his daily lessons, Clotee has taught herself to read and write. However, she soon learns that the tutor, Ely Harms, has a secret of his own.In a time when literacy is one of the most valuable skills to have, Clotee is determined to use her secret to save herself, and her family.


A Picture of Freedom

A Picture of Freedom

Author: Patricia C. McKissack

Publisher:

Published: 1999-09-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780439155991

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A story of a young slave girl on a southern plantation in 1859.