• Goin' Someplace Special

Goin' Someplace Special

Author
Patricia C McKissack
Illustrator
Jerry Pinkney
Publication Date
December 30, 2008
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Goin' Someplace Special
Description
Growing up in 1950s Nashville, Tennessee, Tricia Ann faces signs everywhere saying "For Whites Only." When her grandmother allows her to go "someplace special" for the first time, 'Tricia Ann heads for the public library--where "all" are welcome. Full color.
Publication date
December 30, 2008
Classification
Fiction
Page Count
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ISBN-13
9781416927358
Lexile Measure
730
Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV016150 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
JUV030060 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States
Library of Congress categories
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Patricia C McKissack
Patricia C. McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Goin' Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth; Let My People Go, written with her husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award; The Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner; and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jerry Pinkney (1939-2021) illustrated 100 children's books, and his work earned the 2010 Caldecott Medal, five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Coretta Scott King Honors, five New York Times Best Illustrated Book awards, and, in 2006, the Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators. Jerry Pinkney's many acclaimed titles included John Henry, Minty, Sam and the Tigers, The Ugly Duckling, and Mirandy and Brother Wind. Find out more at JerryPinkneyStudio.com.
Notable Children's Books
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ALSC 2002
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