Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color

Contributor(s): McKissack, Patricia C (Author), McKissack, Fredrick L, Jr (Author), Ransome, James E (Illustrator)

ISBN: 9780689808562

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Hardcover

$27.99

Pub Date: October 1, 1998

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 97019983

Lexile Code: 0930

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 08 to 11

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 11.33" L x 8.78" W ( 1.75 lbs) 144 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000035391 ( Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color)

Reading level: 5.60

Interest level: MG

Point value: 5.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In a triumphant celebration of the human spirit, here are 12 favorites from the Old Testament. Each breathtaking illustration adds exquisite clarity. Full-color illustrations.

Brief description: Patricia C. McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Goin' Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth; Let My People Go, written with her husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award; The Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner; and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.