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Author McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.

Title Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack ;illustrated by John Thompson.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Scholastic, c1994.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Jumpstart Non-Fiction  975 MCKISSACK    ---  Available
Description 68 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).
Indexed In: Accelerated Reader
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National Council For Social Studies Notable Children's Trade
Summary Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
Study Program Accelerated Reader ATOS RL 5.4 1.0 LARK
Subject Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Christmas -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slaves -- Social life and customs.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Christmas -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author McKissack, Fredrick.
Thompson, John, 1940- illustrator.
ISBN 0590430270 $21300

 
    
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