Pat McKissack

Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.

Young David Earl always knows what day of the week it is, because his mother, Ma Dear, has a different apron for every day except Sunday -- her "no-work-day".

Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.

In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.

In 1954, when desegregation comes to Kirkland, Missouri, ten-year-old Rosemary faces many changes and challenges at school and at home as her parents separate.

Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the revered civil rights pioneer.

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

After promising never to lie, Libby learns that it's not always necessary to blurt out the whole truth either.

Messy Bessey discovers that with proper care her garden will flourish.