![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The award-winning Dear America series is one of the most popular book series in America and includes another by McKissack, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl. ![]() The dignity and courage of the Love family provides a model for all families, regardless of ethnic or cultural background. ![]() Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Patricia McKissack writes the kind of historical fiction that will have history students and even reluctant readers and clamoring for more. ![]() DuBois and Marcus Garvey's writings, Nellie and her family gradually discover a place for themselves in their new circumstances, and ultimately find hope and triumph. But through family unity and integrity, and education by way of W.E.B. Delighted with the seemingly endless opportunities in the big city, Nellie is blindsided by the more insidious forms of prejudice that northerners practice: hatred within their own race. After the white racism in their town becomes too brutally overt to ignore, Nellie and her family pack up and move to Chicago. In a year of tumultuous change, victory, and tragedy, she records her thoughts and feelings in a diary given her by her mother. Nellie Lee Love is an 11-year-old African American girl living in the rural South at the end of World War I. Twelveyearold Nellie Lees family moves north to Chicago in hopes of escaping the. They think being light-skinned is better than being dark! Mama says that's nonsense and I think so, too." McKissack Book 18 of the Dear America Series. ![]()
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