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About the Author

Patricia C. McKissack was born in Smyrna, Tennessee on August 9, 1944. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Tennessee State University in 1964 and a master's degree in early childhood literature and media programming from Webster University in 1975. After college, she worked as a junior mostrar mais high school English teacher and a children's book editor at Concordia Publishing. Since the 1980's, she and her husband Frederick L. McKissack have written over 100 books together. Most of their titles are biographies with a strong focus on African-American themes for young readers. Their early 1990s biography series, Great African Americans included volumes on Frederick Douglass, Marian Anderson, and Paul Robeson. Their other works included Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers and Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States. Over their 30 years of writing together, the couple won many awards including the C.S. Lewis Silver Medal, a Newbery Honor, nine Coretta Scott King Author and Honor awards, the Jane Addams Peace Award, and the NAACP Image Award for Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?. In 1998, they received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. She also writes fiction on her own. Her book included Flossie and the Fox, Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt, A Friendship for Today, and Let's Clap, Jump, Sing and Shout; Dance, Spin and Turn It Out! She won the Newberry Honor Book Award and the King Author Award for The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural in 1993 and the Caldecott Medal for Mirandy and Brother Wind. She dead of cardio-respiratory arrest on April 7, 2017 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Pat McKissack

Flossie and the Fox (1986) 1,669 exemplares
Goin' Someplace Special (2001) 1,199 exemplares
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? (1992) 1,047 exemplares
Mirandy and Brother Wind (1988) 871 exemplares
A Friendship for Today (2007) 662 exemplares
Run Away Home (1997) 538 exemplares
Tippy Lemmey (2003) 525 exemplares
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (2000) 410 exemplares
A Million Fish...More or Less (1992) — Autor; Autor — 405 exemplares
The Clone Codes (2010) 384 exemplares
Monkey-Monkey's Trick (1988) 380 exemplares
Bugs! (Rookie Readers) (2000) 323 exemplares
Messy Bessey (1987) 274 exemplares
Ma Dear's Aprons (1997) 194 exemplares
The World in 1492 (1992) 192 exemplares
Away West (Scraps of Time) (2006) 190 exemplares
Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship (2005) 186 exemplares
What Is Given from the Heart (2019) — Autor — 172 exemplares
Precious and the Boo Hag (2005) 141 exemplares
Porch Lies (2006) 140 exemplares
Nettie Jo's Friends (1989) 126 exemplares
The Home-Run King (Scraps of Time) (2008) 122 exemplares
Miami Jackson Sees It Through (2002) 106 exemplares
Jesse Jackson: A Biography (1989) 103 exemplares
Messy Bessey's Closet (1989) 100 exemplares
All Paths Lead to Bethlehem (1665) 93 exemplares
Miami Makes the Play (2001) 87 exemplares
Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love (2012) — Autor — 68 exemplares
The Story of Booker T. Washington (1991) 64 exemplares
The Maya (New True Books) (1985) 62 exemplares
The Aztec (New True Books) (1985) 61 exemplares
The Inca (New True Books) (1985) 58 exemplares
Who Is Coming? (Rookie Readers) (1986) 57 exemplares
The Apache (New True Book) (1984) 49 exemplares
The Clone Codes #2: Cyborg (2011) 46 exemplares
So Who's Dr. Rabbit? (1994) 41 exemplares
The Story of Mary McLeod Bethune (1992) 35 exemplares
Who Is Who? (1983) 33 exemplares
God Made Something Wonderful (1989) 32 exemplares
God Makes All Things New (1993) 32 exemplares
Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story (2013) 31 exemplares
Loved Best (Ready-for-Chapters) (2005) 31 exemplares
My Bible ABC Book (1987) 28 exemplares
Where Crocodiles Have Wings (2005) 27 exemplares
Anansi Gives Wisdom To The World (2005) 27 exemplares
The Children's ABC Christmas (1988) 27 exemplares
Who Will Bell the Cat? (2018) 27 exemplares
The Clone Codes #3: The Visitor (2012) 24 exemplares
Can You Imagine? (1997) 23 exemplares
Cinderella (Start-Off Stories) (1985) 18 exemplares
All Our Fruits & Vegetables (1995) 10 exemplares
W. E. B. Du Bois (1990) 10 exemplares
Tennessee Trailblazers (1993) 6 exemplares
The Big Bug Book of Counting (1987) 5 exemplares
Ask the Kids (1981) 4 exemplares
Stationery Pack (Dear America) (1998) 3 exemplares
JESSIE JACKSON 2 exemplares
JESSE JACKSON 2 exemplares
Messy Bessy 2 exemplares
Tall Phil and small Bill (1987) 2 exemplares
A real winner (1987) 1 exemplar
Let My People Go 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Contribuidor — 342 exemplares
It's Great To Be Eight (1997) — Contribuidor — 263 exemplares
Beware!: R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories (2002) — Contribuidor — 221 exemplares
It's Fine To Be Nine (2000) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Lu and the Swamp Ghost (2004) — Autor — 112 exemplares
Best Shorts: Favorite Stories for Sharing (2006) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure (2011) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares

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This is a book of poems all connected to a larger narrative. Focuses on a father’s lament of his boy being taken by the slave trade. Very emotionally mature themes with folklore woven throughout. I would use as a read aloud with 5th graders as a preface to reading a chapter book that talks directly about the slave trade. Requires teacher guidance.
 
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zrobinson | 15 outras críticas | Mar 18, 2024 |
Fascinating story of the life on an extraordinary woman. It is interesting to see and understand the experience of a slave and the way it affected her family. While I have heard many narratives of the experience of slavery, this one struck me because her young son, abused and mistreated by owners responded in the way many modern abused young men respond: with an tendency toward wild behavior. Overall very good, although the pictures and illustrations do not really match the text, which is a little annoying.… (mais)
 
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mslibrarynerd | 11 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
Kind of preachy and predictable. Still a fun read, because I like YA lit and I like scifi. Will probably seek out the forthcoming sequels.
 
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mimo | 20 outras críticas | Dec 18, 2023 |

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Obras
151
Also by
14
Membros
21,313
Popularidade
#1,018
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
471
ISBN
631
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
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