TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKissack,Pat
TI  - A picture of freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl 
T2  - Dear America
SN  - 0590259881
AV  - PZ7.M478693 Fp 1997
U1  - [Fic] 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Underground railroad
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Diaries
KW  - sears
N1  - "Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859"--Cover; Wilson's Children; Wilson's Junior High School; School Library Journal; 5.2; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; 730; Lexile
N2  - In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom
ER  -