Best Selling Books by Patricia C. McKissack

After having fun at their family reunion, Messy Bessey's family cleans up and leaves the park as beautiful as when they arrived.

After teasing his friends about their fears during a camping trip, Christopher discovers one of his own.

Traces the life of the African American educator and leader, focusing on his stewardship of Tuskegee Institute.

Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. To her, freedom is the greatest word in the world. In the slave quarters, people pray for freedom, or as they call it 'heaven'. But when will it come?

King Midas discovers that gold does not make him happy after all especially when he can't eat it or love it.

In this eerie ghost story, a cruel and greedy man is pursued by an unseen stalker. He can hear the hooves of the specter's horseclippity-cloppity, clippity-cloppity. The faster he rides, the faster the ghost follows, until at last he arrives home. Is he safe at last, or is Ol' Clip-Clop gonna SWALLOW HIM WHOLE?!!!!!

In 1879, 13-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas

Describes what a kindergarten class learned about Martin Luther King, Jr., on his birthday.

Mark Twain Award Nominee 1994-95.

A boy learns that the truth is often stretched on the Bayou Clapateaux, and gets the chance to tell his own version of a bayou tale when he goes fishing.

Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.

This excellent beginning-to-read series will score easily with early readers.