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Pat McKissack (1944–2017)

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

Inclou aquests noms: Pat McKissack, Pat McKissack, Patricia McKissak, Particia McKissack, Patricia McKissack, Patricia Mc Kissack, Mckissack C. Patrica, Patricia C. Mckissack, Patricia C. McKissack, Patricia C. McKissack ... (mira la llista completa), Patricia C. Mc Kissack, Illustrated by Scott Cook Patricia Mckissack

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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 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) — biography from A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (Dear America Series) … (més)

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The Clone Codes

Scraps of Time

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Obres de Pat McKissack

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont… 1,461 exemplars, 21 ressenyes

Flossie and the Fox 1,344 exemplars, 28 ressenyes

Goin' Someplace Special 1,018 exemplars, 76 ressenyes

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North… 823 exemplars, 9 ressenyes

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? 808 exemplars, 10 ressenyes

Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba 754 exemplars, 9 ressenyes

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural 732 exemplars, 17 ressenyes

Mirandy and Brother Wind 719 exemplars, 34 ressenyes

A Friendship for Today 568 exemplars, 12 ressenyes

We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust (Pròleg; Pròleg) 563 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Run Away Home 460 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Abby Takes a Stand (Scraps of Time) 450 exemplars, 13 ressenyes

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues 437 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Tippy Lemmey 385 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

The Clone Codes 340 exemplars, 20 ressenyes

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth 339 exemplars, 15 ressenyes

A Million Fish...More or Less 320 exemplars, 6 ressenyes

Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New… 256 exemplars, 9 ressenyes

Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts 244 exemplars

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters 240 exemplars, 10 ressenyes

Bugs! (Rookie Readers) 223 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Monkey-Monkey's Trick 208 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Miami Gets It Straight (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) 194 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The World in 1492 162 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Never Forgotten (Junior Library Guild Selection) 162 exemplars, 15 ressenyes

Messy Bessey 159 exemplars

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll 143 exemplars, 12 ressenyes

Ma Dear's Aprons 143 exemplars, 7 ressenyes

Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States 138 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship 131 exemplars

Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers 130 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Precious and the Boo Hag 127 exemplars, 16 ressenyes

Porch Lies 121 exemplars, 5 ressenyes

What Is Given from the Heart (Autor) 119 exemplars, 18 ressenyes

Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt 118 exemplars, 14 ressenyes

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa 112 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Away West (Scraps of Time) 106 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Messy Bessey's Garden (Rookie Readers) 105 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Nettie Jo's Friends 98 exemplars, 5 ressenyes

The Home-Run King (Scraps of Time) 96 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Jesse Jackson: A Biography 86 exemplars

Messy Bessey's Closet 76 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Let My People Go : Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color 76 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

All Paths Lead to Bethlehem 75 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Miami Jackson Sees It Through 70 exemplars

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Man to Remember (People of Distinction Series) 63 exemplars

Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love (Autor) 63 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Miami Makes the Play 59 exemplars

Messy Bessey's Family Reunion (Rookie Readers: Level C) 57 exemplars

Mary McLeod Bethune: A Great Teacher (Great African Americans Series) 56 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Maya (New True Books) 54 exemplars

Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games,… 53 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Aztec (New True Books) 53 exemplars, 1 ressenya

A Song for Harlem (Scraps of Time) 52 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

Frederick Douglass: The black lion (People of Distinction Series) 50 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Itching and Twitching: A Nigerian Folktale 49 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

The Story of Booker T. Washington 46 exemplars

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter 45 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Who Is Coming? (Rookie Readers) 44 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Inca (New True Books) 43 exemplars

The Clone Codes #2: Cyborg 42 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Messy Bessey's Holidays (Rookie Readers: Level B) 41 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

The Apache (New True Book) 40 exemplars

Messy Bessey and the Birthday Overnight (Rookie Readers) 40 exemplars, 1 ressenya

So Who's Dr. Rabbit? 37 exemplars

Messy Bessey's School Desk (Rookie Readers: Level C) 33 exemplars

To Establish Justice: Citizenship and the Constitution 33 exemplars

The Little Red Hen (Start Off Stories) 32 exemplars

George Washington Carver: The Peanut Scientist (Great African Americans… 31 exemplars

Louis Armstrong: Jazz Musician (Great African Americans Series) 30 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Story of Mary McLeod Bethune 29 exemplars

The Children's ABC Christmas 28 exemplars

My Bible ABC Book 27 exemplars

God Makes All Things New 27 exemplars

When do you talk to God? : prayers for small children 26 exemplars

Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans… 26 exemplars

Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II 26 exemplars

God Made Something Wonderful 26 exemplars

The Civil Rights Movement in America: From 1865 to the Present 26 exemplars

Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story 25 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Who Is Who? 25 exemplars

Madam C.J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire (Great African Americans Series) 24 exemplars

Paul Robeson: A Voice to Remember (Great African Americans) 24 exemplars

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence (Great African Americans… 24 exemplars

Langston Hughes: Great American Poet (Great African Americans Series) 24 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Lights Out, Christopher (Christopher Books) 23 exemplars

Booker T. Washington: Leader and Educator (Great African Americans Series) 23 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Loved Best (Ready-for-Chapters) 23 exemplars

Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Poet to Remember (People of Distinction) 23 exemplars

It's the Truth, Christopher (Christopher Books) 23 exemplars

Jesse Owens: Olympic Star (Great African Americans Series) 22 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Give It With Love, Christopher: Christopher Learns About Gifts and Giving… 21 exemplars

Who Will Bell the Cat? 21 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Marian Anderson: A Great Singer (Great African Americans Series) 21 exemplars

Oh, Happy, Happy Day!: A Child's Easter in Story,Song and Prayer 21 exemplars

Where Crocodiles Have Wings 21 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Mary Church Terrell: Leader for Equality (Great African Americans Series) 19 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

The Clone Codes #3: The Visitor 19 exemplars

Can You Imagine? 19 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry 17 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Anansi Gives Wisdom To The World 16 exemplars

Cinderella (Start-Off Stories) 14 exemplars

The Country Mouse and City Mouse (Start Off Stories) 13 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Ugly Little Duck (Start Off Stories) 12 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Zora Neale Hurston: Writer and Storyteller (Great African Americans… 12 exemplars

Speak Up, Christopher: Christopher Learns the Difference Between Right and… 12 exemplars

Hard Labor: The First African Americans,1619 (Milestone Books) 12 exemplars

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Start Off Stories) 11 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Abram, Abram, Where Are We Going (Early Reader) 10 exemplars

Satchel Paige: The Best Arm in Baseball (Great African Americans Series) 10 exemplars

From Heaven Above: The Story of Christmas Proclaimed by the Angels 10 exemplars

Constance Stumbles (Rookie Readers) 10 exemplars

Our Martin Luther King Book (Special Day) 9 exemplars

African American Inventors (Proud Heritage) 9 exemplars

King Midas and His Gold (Start Off Stories) 9 exemplars

All Our Fruits & Vegetables 9 exemplars

Look What You'Ve Done Now Moses! (Early Readers) 8 exemplars

Ralph J. Bunche: Peacemaker (Great African Americans Series) 8 exemplars

James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing (Picture-Story… 8 exemplars

W. E. B. Du Bois 8 exemplars

African American Scientists (Proud Heritage) 7 exemplars

The Three Bears (Start Off Stories) 7 exemplars

Taking a Stand Against Racism and Racial Discrimination (Taking a Stand… 7 exemplars

The Big Bug Book of Counting 5 exemplars

Tennessee Trailblazers 5 exemplars

The Big Bug Book of the Alphabet (The Big Bug/As34) 5 exemplars

The King's New Clothes (Start-Off Stories) 5 exemplars

A Rookie Reader Boxed Set-Messy Bessey Boxed Set 1 (Rookie Reader-Boxed… 3 exemplars

The Big Bug Book of Things to Do (The Big Bug/Ab36) 3 exemplars

Ask the Kids 3 exemplars

Stationery Pack (Dear America) 3 exemplars

The Big Bug Book of Places to Go (The Big Bug/As35) 3 exemplars

The Big Bug Book of Opposites (The Big Bug/Ab33) 3 exemplars

The Best of Friends 3 exemplars

Tall Phil and small Bill 2 exemplars

African Americans (A World of Stamps) 2 exemplars

A Troll in a Hole (Reading Well) 2 exemplars

Nettie Jo's Friends 1 exemplars

Picture of Freedom, A ( The diary of Clotie, a slave girl) 1 exemplars

Celebrate Family (National Geographic Explorer! Collection) 1 exemplars

American Women (World of Stamps Series) 1 exemplars

Michael Jackson, Superstar 1 exemplars

A real winner 1 exemplars

[(Mckissack Patricia : Flossie & the Fox Tr )] [Author: Patricia C… 1 exemplars

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També de Pat McKissack

The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to… (Autor) 1,370 exemplars, 14 ressenyes

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (Col·laborador) 289 exemplars, 7 ressenyes

It's Great To Be Eight (Col·laborador) 220 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Beware!: R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories (Col·laborador) 189 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

It's Fine To Be Nine (Col·laborador) 97 exemplars

Lu and the Swamp Ghost (Autor) 96 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Best Shorts: Favorite Stories for Sharing (Col·laborador) 84 exemplars, 5 ressenyes

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure (Col·laborador) 53 exemplars, 6 ressenyes

New Landmark Books: One More Valley, One More Hill - The Story of Aunt… (Introducció) 44 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Curious George Rides a Bike... and More Tales of Mischief [1991 film] (Narrador) 20 exemplars

Mama's Window (Epíleg) 19 exemplars

Dear America: The Nation at War: The Civil War Collection 7 exemplars

Stepping Stones Teachers Edition: Three Complete Books and a… 5 exemplars

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