TY - BOOK AU - Hansen,Joyce TI - I thought my soul would rise and fly: the diary of Patsy, a freed girl T2 - Dear America SN - 0590849131 (alk. paper) AV - PZ7.H1933 Iaj 1997 U1 - [Fic] 21 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - African Americans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Fiction KW - Diaries KW - sears KW - Reconstruction (1865-1876) KW - Historical fiction KW - United States KW - History KW - 1865-1898 KW - Juvenile Fiction N1 - "Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865"--Cover; School Library Journal, November 1997; Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2008; Multicultural Review, March 1998; Christian Library, September 1998; L.A. Recommended Foreign Language, February 1999; School Library Journal; Book Links (A.L.A.); Coretta Scott King Award; 4.8; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; 820; Lexile N2 - 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; Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the exciting but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves ER -