Abby Takes a StandW
Abby Takes a Stand

Abby Takes a Stand is a 2005 book by Patricia McKissack. It is the first book in the Scraps of Time series and is predominantly set in the 1960s. It concerns an African-American grandmother, Abby, talking with some of her young relatives about the time she was a young girl in Nashville, Tennessee, her experiences with racial segregation, and her involvement with the Civil Rights Movement.

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas DollW
The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll is a 2007 picture book by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a girl, Nella, living during the Great Depression who amazingly receives a doll for Christmas, initially doesn't share with her sisters but then relents after discovering that it's not fun to play by herself.

Away WestW
Away West

Scraps of Time: 1879, Away West is a 2006 book by Patricia McKissack about a farmboy, Everett Turner, who runs away and joins the Exodusters, travelling to Nicodemus, Kansas.

Best Shot in the WestW
Best Shot in the West

Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love is a 2012 graphic novel written by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack and illustrated by Randy DuBurke. It is about the life of African-American cowboy Nat Love.

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball LeaguesW
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues is a 1994 book by Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr. It tells the history African-American and Latin American involvement with baseball in the United States.

Black Hands, White SailsW
Black Hands, White Sails

Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers is a 1999 book by Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack about the involvement of African-Americans in the history of whaling in the United States.

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the QuartersW
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters is a 1994 Children's book by Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack. It is about the preparations and workings around the Christmas season on a slave plantation in 1850s Virginia.

The Clone CodesW
The Clone Codes

The Clone Codes is a 2010 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. It is about a girl, Leanna, who lives in 22nd century America where human clones and cyborgs are treated like second-class citizens, and what happens when she discovers that her parents are activists and that she is a clone.

Color Me DarkW
Color Me Dark

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North is a 2000 book by Patricia McKissack about a girl, Nellie, who from 1919 records her thoughts and experiences in a diary including her home in rural Tennessee, as a part of The Great Migration, and her new home in Chicago. It is part of the Dear America book series.

Cyborg: The Second Book of the Clone CodesW
Cyborg: The Second Book of the Clone Codes

Cyborg: The Second Book of the Clone Codes is a 2011 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. It is the second book in the Clone Codes trilogy and is about Houston Ye, a teen cyborg who, with Leanna, attempt to obtain civil rights for themselves.

The Dark-ThirtyW
The Dark-Thirty

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, is a children's thriller book, filled with ten tales of supernatural activity occurring throughout times of slavery and civil rights in the south. The authors of the book, Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, husband and wife, are known for their writings about African American culture. The illustrator of this book is Brian Pinkney, who has illustrated many highly acclaimed children's picture books. The Dark Thirty Southern Tales of the Supernatural was published in 1992 and received a Newbery Honor along with a Coretta Scott King Award in 1993.

Days of JubileeW
Days of Jubilee

Days Of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States is a 2002 book by Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack which sets out the history of Abolitionism in the United States.

Flossie & the FoxW
Flossie & the Fox

Flossie & the Fox is a 1986 picture book by Pat McKissack about a girl, Flossie, who takes some eggs to a neighbor, meets a fox on the way and manages to outwit it.

A Friendship for TodayW
A Friendship for Today

A Friendship for Today is a 2007 book by Patricia McKissack about the life of a girl, Rosemary Patterson, attending one of the first integrated Missouri schools during the 1950s.

Goin' Someplace SpecialW
Goin' Someplace Special

Goin' Someplace Special is a 2001 children's book by Pat McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a young African American girl, Tricia Ann, who goes to the public library by herself during the time of the Jim Crow laws.

Hard Labor: The First African Americans, 1619W
Hard Labor: The First African Americans, 1619

Hard Labor: The First African Americans, 1619 is a 2004 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack about the first African Americans to set foot in America.

The Honest-to-Goodness TruthW
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth is a 2000 picture book by Patricia McKissack and Giselle Potter. It is about a girl, Libby Louise, who decides to only tell the truth, the problems this causes, and her eventual understanding about the need for empathy and kindness in some situations.

Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of ColorW
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color

Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color is a 1998 book by Patricia McKissack. Set in 19th century South Carolina, it is about a freed slave, Price Jeffries, who uses Bible stories from the Old Testament to answer questions that his daughter, Charlotte, poses about the things she sees around her.

Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & ShoutW
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout

Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs & Stories From An African American Childhood is a 2017 book by Patricia McKissack. It is a collection of games, songs, proverbs, stories including those from McKissack's childhood.

Ma Dear's ApronsW
Ma Dear's Aprons

Ma Dear's Aprons is a 1997 book by Patricia McKissack about the relationship between a son, David Earl, and his mother, Ma dear.

A Million Fish ... more or lessW
A Million Fish ... more or less

A Million Fish ... more or less is a 1992 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack. It is about a boy of the bayou, Hugh Thomas, who has a fishing adventure.

Mirandy and Brother WindW
Mirandy and Brother Wind

Mirandy and Brother Wind is a 1988 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a girl, Mirandy, who attempts to catch the wind so he will be her partner for the upcoming junior cakewalk.

Never ForgottenW
Never Forgotten

Never Forgotten is a 2011 picture book by Pat McKissack about a blacksmith father in West Africa who has Musafa, his son, kidnapped by slavers and with the assistance of the four elements discovers that Musafa is working in Charleston as a blacksmith's apprentice.

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595W
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 is a 2000 book by Patricia McKissack about Queen Anna Nzinga as a girl told through fictitious diary entries based on real historical events. It is part of the book series The Royal Diaries.

Ol' Clip-ClopW
Ol' Clip-Clop

Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story is a 2013 book by Patricia McKissack about John Leep, a stingy landlord, who cheats a tenant but then gets his come-uppance.

A Picture of FreedomW
A Picture of Freedom

A Picture of Freedom is a children's historical novel written by Patricia C. McKissack and published by Scholastic in 1997 as part of their Dear America series.

Porch LiesW
Porch Lies

Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters is a 2006 book by Patricia McKissack. It is a collection of tales based on oral stories that McKissack heard from her grandfather and his friends when she was a child.

Precious and the Boo HagW
Precious and the Boo Hag

Precious and the Boo Hag is a children's fairy tale by Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss with illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker. The story revolves around Precious, a young girl, who is left home, told by her mother to not let "nothing or nobody" into the house. Her brother teasingly warns her about Pruella the Boo Hag who can change her shape and will do "most anything" to get inside. Precious is not sure whether to believe him, but while she is alone the Boo Hag arrives on the back of a storm.

Rebels Against SlaveryW
Rebels Against Slavery

Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts is a 1996 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack.

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

Red-Tail Angels: The Sory of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II is a 1995 Children's picture book by Patricia and Frederick McKissack. It is about the African Americans of the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the USAF who were known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and SonghayW
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa is a 1993 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. It is a history of Western Africa and the kingdoms that flourished there from 700AD to 1700AD.

Run Away HomeW
Run Away Home

Run Away Home is a 1997 book by Patricia McKissack. Set in the late 19th century, it is about an African-American girl, Sarah Jane, who finds an Apache boy in the family barn and the subsequent affects on their lives.

A Song for HarlemW
A Song for Harlem

Scraps of Time: 1928, A Song for Harlem is a 2007 book by Patricia McKissack about a girl, Lilly Belle, who spends the Summer of 1928 in Harlem attending a writers' workshop led by Zora Neale Hurston.

Stitchin' and Pullin'W
Stitchin' and Pullin'

Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt is a 2008 picture book by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera. It is about a young girl, Baby girl, who, growing up amongst the quilters of Gee's Bend, Alabama, makes her first quilt.

Tippy LemmeyW
Tippy Lemmey

Tippy Lemmey is a 2003 chapter book by Patricia McKissack about three children, Leandra, Paul, and Jeannie, who are terrorised by a neighborhood dog, called Tippy Lemmey, but manage to overcome their fears and befriend him.

To Establish JusticeW
To Establish Justice

To Establish Justice: Citizenship and Constitution is a 2004 book by Patricia McKissack and Arlene Zarembka. It is a history of the U.S. Supreme Court's role in civil rights.

Where Crocodiles Have WingsW
Where Crocodiles Have Wings

Where Crocodiles have Wings is a 2005 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack. It is a rhyming story where imaginative animals occur.

Young, Black, and DeterminedW
Young, Black, and Determined

Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry is a 1998 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. It is a biography of the playwright and activist, Lorraine Hansberry.