Goin' Someplace Special
2001
First Published
4.35
Average Rating
40
Number of Pages
1950s Nashville, Tennessee is segregated, and black people are persecuted, but young Tricia Ann is determined to venture on her own across town to someplace special. A must read book about persecution of minorities, but also about hope and light.
Avg Rating
4.35
Number of Ratings
2,429
5 STARS
55%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
13%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Patricia C. McKissack
Author · 63 books
Patricia C. McKissack was the Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of The Dark-Thirty and Porch Lies an ALA Notable Book. She collaborated with Jerry Pinkney on Goin' Someplace Special (Coretta Scott King Award winner) and Mirandy and Brother Wind (Coretta Scott King Award winner and Caldecott Honor Book).
