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Kids' Reading List: 6 to 9 Years

Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack

Goin' Someplace Special
By Patricia McKissack; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney*

Excited about "goin' someplace special" all by herself, Tricia Ann, an African-American child of the '50s in the segregated south, deals with prejudices she encounters along the way to the one special place that will welcome her—the public library.

Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. ISBN: 9780689818851





 

Special thanks to the American Library Association for their recommendations.

*2009 list addition