Pat McKissack

Fredrick McKissack

Peter Glassman

Hugh Lofting

Michael Hague

Presents the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl

A Picture of Freedom

Presents the fictional diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.

Warrior Queen of Matamba

Nzingha

Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North

Color Me Dark

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.

The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl

Look to the Hills

John Patrick McKissack

On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, 13-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.

The Clone Codes

Presents a collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. A Newbery Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Award Winner, & ALA Notable Children's Book. Reissue.

Southern Tales of the Supernatural

The Dark-thirty

Seventeen-year-old Houston, a cyborg since the age of seven, and a fugitive living on the Moon, joins with other cyborgs all over the world in non-violent protest marches to challenge the Cyborg Act 2130 and hopefully secure increased civil liberties.

Cyborg

During the Depression, three young sisters get one baby doll for Christmas and must find a way to share.

What Is Given from the Heart

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.

Goin' Someplace Special

Slave Girl

An urgent decree by the World Federation of Nations to track down fugitive cyborg Houston Ye and clone Leanna Deberry leads to revelations about the secret operations within the Topas Corporation.

The Visitors

Frederick L. McKissack

Describes, in graphic novel format, the life of Nat Love, also known as Deadwood Dick, who grew up to become the most famous African-American cowboy in the Old West.

The Adventures of Nat Love

Best Shot in the West

A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

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

Mirandy and Brother Wind

Onawumi Jean Moss

Kyrsten Brooker

From the author of the Newbery Honor-winning "The Dark-Thirty" comes a deliciously funny, not-too-scary picture book featuring a spunky heroine and the Boo Hag, a crafty spirit that will stop at nothing to get inside the house. Full color.

Precious and the Boo Hag

Presents incidents from the life of Moses, such as his being discovered as a baby by Pharaoh's daughter and his receiving God's laws on Mount Sinai.

Look what You've Done Now, Moses

Laura Freeman-Hines

Robert L. McKissack

While having a nice dinner together, Rabbit points out to Monkey that he canÆt stop scratching himself and so Monkey tells Rabbit that he canÆt stop his twitching, yet after a contest to see who can sit still the longest, they both come to the realization that just being themselves is simply the best way to be. Original.

A Nigerian Folktale

Itching and Twitching

Monkey, who scratches when he itches, and Rabbit, who twitches when he feels like it, try to accept each other and themselves.

A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.

Pat McKissack

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