Hansen, Joyce. <br/><br/>
I thought my soul would rise and fly :  the diary of Patsy, a freed girl / 
by Joyce Hansen. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  1997. 
 - 202 p. :  ill., map, ports., music ;  20 cm. 
 - Dear America ;  6 .
<br/><br/> donated in memory of Matthew Young                                 winner of the Coretta Scott King Award 
<br/><br/> Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. 
<br/><br/> 5-9.  6.  820  Lexile 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0590849131 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97002170 /AC 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--History--Fiction.<br/>Reconstruction (1865-1876)--Fiction.<br/>Diaries--Fiction.<br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Fiction.--1865-1898
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Fic