Hansen, Joyce. <br/><br/>
I thought my soul would rise and fly :  the diary of Patsy, a freed girl / 
by Joyce Hansen. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  c1997. 
 - 202 p. :  ill., maps, music ;  22 cm. 
 - Dear America. Coretta Scott King author honor book;  1998. .
<br/><br/> Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. 
<br/><br/> Coretta Scott King author honor book, 1998. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0590849131 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97002170 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Diaries--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Children's literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Juvenile Fiction.--1865-1898