Most Popular Books by Patricia C. McKissack

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

Rookie Readers RM have provided entertaining, high-quality introductions to reading for more than a generation. Each title features full-color, often hilarious illustrations and engaging stories that always involve a young child figuring out concepts or solving problems on his or her own. Every new title contains a Word List and a color-coded reading-level key on the back cover.

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?!!!!!

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

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 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

Mark Twain Award Nominee 1994-95.

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

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.