The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural

Available (10)

Location	Collection	Call #
CLP - East Liberty	Children's Mysteries	qj Fic McKissac
Location	CLP - East Liberty
Collection	Children's Mysteries
Call Number	qj Fic McKissac
CLP - Squirrel Hill	Children's Fiction Collection	qj Fic McKissac
Location	CLP - Squirrel Hill
Collection	Children's Fiction Collection
Call Number	qj Fic McKissac
Carnegie Free Library of Swissvale	Children Fiction	J SC MCKI
Location	Carnegie Free Library of Swissvale
Collection	Children Fiction
Call Number	J SC MCKI
Community Library of Allegheny Valley - Harrison	Children Fiction	J McKISSACK
Location	Community Library of Allegheny Valley - Harrison
Collection	Children Fiction
Call Number	J McKISSACK
Hampton Community Library	Juvenile Fiction	J F MCKISSACK
Location	Hampton Community Library
Collection	Juvenile Fiction
Call Number	J F MCKISSACK
Mt. Lebanon Public Library	Children's Fiction	j MCKISSACK
Location	Mt. Lebanon Public Library
Collection	Children's Fiction
Call Number	j MCKISSACK
Northland Public Library	Children's Fiction	J FIC MCKISSACK
Location	Northland Public Library
Collection	Children's Fiction
Call Number	J FIC MCKISSACK
Penn Hills Library	Juvenile	j MCK
Location	Penn Hills Library
Collection	Juvenile
Call Number	j MCK
Pleasant Hills Public Library	Juvenile	q Juv Fic SS McKis
Location	Pleasant Hills Public Library
Collection	Juvenile
Call Number	q Juv Fic SS McKis
Shaler North Hills Library	Juvenile Fiction	j MCK
Location	Shaler North Hills Library
Collection	Juvenile Fiction
Call Number	j MCK

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Summary

Contents

The Legend of Pin Oak
We Organized
Justice
The 11:59
The Sight
The Woman in the Snow
The Conjure Brother
Boo Mama
The Gingi
The Chicken-Coop Monster.

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Gr. 4-8. McKissack identifies these 10 tales as "original stories rooted in African American history and the oral storytelling tradition." She prefaces each with a short introduction explaining the historical incident or custom from which it grew--for example, slavery, belief in a psychic ability known as "the sight," or the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott that began in 1955. The most successful of the stories have the structure and style of traditional folktales as well as the shiver-up-the-back feeling of "real" ghost stories. In "Justice," an innocent black man lynched by the Klan comes back to haunt the man who engineered his death; the sad tale of "The Woman in the Snow" shows prejudice and cruelty overcome; and in the semi-autobiographical story "The Chicken Coop Monster," a young girl becomes secure in the knowledge that love casts out fear. An accessible collection on a popular topic, easy to booktalk to a wide range of readers. ~--Janice Del Negro"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "When I was growing up in the South, writes McKissack, we called the half hour just before nightfall the dark-thirty. Her nine stories and one poem, however, are far too good to be reserved for that special time when it is neither day nor night and when shapes and shadows play tricks on the mind. These short works-haunting in both senses of the word-explore aspects of the African American experience in the South, from slavery to the Underground Railroad and emancipation, from the era of Pullman cars to the desegregation of buses, from the terror of the Ku Klux Klan to '60s activism. Here, African Americans' historical lack of political power finds its counterbalance in a display of supernatural power: ghosts exact vengeance for lynchings; slaves use ancient magic to enforce their master's promise of emancipation. As carefully executed as McKissack's writings, Pinkney's black-and-white scratchboard illustrations enhance the book's atmosphere, at once clearly regional in setting and otherworldly in tone. Ages 8-12. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Ghost stories, American. Horror tales, American. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Children's stories, American. Ghosts -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Short stories. Southern States -- Juvenile fiction. Horror fiction Ghost stories.
Publisher	New York :Knopf,1992
Contributors	Pinkney, J. Brian.
Language	English
Awards	Coretta Scott King Award, author, 1993 Newbery Honor Book, 1993
Description	iv, 122 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN	0679818634 (trade) : 0679918639 (lib. bdg)
Other	Classic View