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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

by Joyce Hansen

Middle grade · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 720L · 2011

Why we'd hand it over

Sparse, honest, and quietly devastating—Hansen lets Patsy's voice and choices carry the weight of Reconstruction and emancipation without didacticism, making the era humanly real in a way textbooks cannot.

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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (ages 10–14) — ChapterScout