P Patricia McKissack 70 books Literary Fiction Children's Books History Biography & Memoir Young Adult Horror African American children's writer Books by Patricia McKissack Langston Hughes Miami Jackson Gets It Straight Messy Bessey Jesse Jackson Messy Bessey's Holidays Country mouse and city mouse Carter G. Woodson The Civil Rights Movement in America from 1865 to the present African-American scientists The royal kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Mary Church Terrell Black Diamond Away West W.E.B. DuBois Who is Who? Paul Robeson Let my people go Black Hands, White Sails Miami Sees It Through (Road to Reading Mile 5 (Chapter Books) It's Fine to Be Nine Constance Stumbles Where crocodiles have wings Dear America A Picture of Freedom Messy Bessey's family reunion Messy Bessey and the birthday overnight Slave Girl Precious and the Boo Hag Abby Takes a Stand Ralph J. Bunche The ugly little duck The World in 1492 Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba The Honest-to-Goodness Truth Michael Jackson, superstar! Tennessee trailblazers The homerun king Messy Bessey's School Desk Our Martin Luther King book King Midas and his gold Run Away Home Zora Neale Hurston, writer and storyteller The story of Booker T. Washington A long hard journey The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Who Is Coming Porch Lies Mirandy and Brother Wind Goin' someplace special Friendship For Today Red-tail angels Itching and twitching The king's new clothes Let's clap, jump, sing, and shout To establish justice Monkey-Monkey's Trick Young, Black, and determined The clone codes Messy Bessey's Closet Nettie Jo's Friends Color Me Dark Ol' Clip-Clop Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poetto remember Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters No need for alarm Flossie & the Fox A Million Fish...More or Less Stitchin' and pullin' Look to the Hills Ma Dear's Aprons Miami Jackson Makes the Play