Alice McGill, Author . Scholastic $4.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-439-28070-9
"McGill compellingly builds a 12-year-old's transformation from complacent house slave to potential runaway in her historical novel set on a South Carolina slave plantation in 1851," wrote PW. Ages 11-13. (Feb.)
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Alice McGill, Author , illus. by Don Tate. Houghton $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-618-21196-8
McGill (Molly Bannaky
), a professional storyteller, presents five folktales she grew up hearing during her childhood in rural North Carolina in this magically told but weakly illustrated collection. Writing in a cadenced dialect perfect for reading
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Alice McGill, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-395-97938-9
McGill (Molly Bannaky) compellingly builds a 12-year-old's transformation from complacent house slave to potential runaway in her historical novel set on a South Carolina slave plantation in 1851. Miles finds his life upended when Master Tillery...
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Alice McGill, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator , illus. by Shane Evans. Houghton $15 (122p) ISBN 978-0-618-16064-8
This somewhat stilted novel centers on seven-year-old Roberta, an African-American girl who goes to stay with her paternal grandparents in rural North Carolina after her pregnant mother is put on bed rest during the summer of 1946. Resentful of her...
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Alice McGill, Author, Chris K. Soentpiet, Author, Chris K. Soentpiet, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-72287-9
This sketchy, ultimately unfocused picture book introduces the spirited British exile who would become grandmother to Benjamin Banneker, the first black man to publish an almanac. After a cow knocks over a pail of milk, Molly, a 17-year-old dairy...
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