Pat McKissack
21) Away west
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From acclaimed authors and historians Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack Jr. comes a thrilling graphic novel based on the true-life adventures of an unforgettable man. Born into slavery in 1854, Nat Love grew up to become the most famous African American cowboy in the Old West. A contemporary and acquaintance of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, Nat was widely known as an expert roper and driver, a crack shot, and a real Wild West character....
29) Messy Bessey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Bessey finally cleans up her messy room.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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The dot: Vashti doesn't think she can draw, but her teacher encourages her to "just make a mark and see where it takes you."
Amazing Grace: Grace's classmates discourage her from trying out for Peter Pan in the school play because she doesn't look the part.
Brave Irene: When Mrs. Bobbins, the dressmaker, gets too sick to deliver her dress on time, her daughter Irene steps in and battles powerful winds and snow to prove that where there is a will,...