Name: Away West
Author: Patricia C. McKissack

Patricia C. McKissack

<span>In 1879, thirteen-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. </span>

Scraps of Time

Away West

What Is Given from the Heart

Who Will Bell the Cat?

Let's Clap, Jump, Sing, and Shout; Dance, Spin, and Turn It Out!

Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story

The Visitors

Never Forgotten

John McKissack

Cyborg

The Clone Codes

Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love

Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll

A Song for Harlem

A Friendship for Today

Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters

Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship

Abby Takes a Stand

Precious and the Boo Hag

Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595

Tippy Lemmey

Fredrick L. McKissack

Miami Jackson Sees It Through

Goin' Someplace Special

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919

Fredrick McKissack

Black Hands, White Sails

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859

Run Away Home

Ma Dear's Aprons

Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

A Million Fish...More or Less

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Bugs!

Mirandy and Brother Wind

Flossie and the Fox

Away West

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