Pat McKissack
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
[36] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
188 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Description
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.