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Precious and the Boo Hag

Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McKissack, Pat, 1944-
Other Authors:	Moss, Onawumi Jean, Johnson, Sisi Aisha (Narrator)
Format:	Kits Kit Books Print Book Kit Audiobooks Kit
Language:	English
Published:	Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Subjects:	Monsters > Juvenile fiction. Courage > Juvenile fiction. Sick > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.
Item Description:	In container (23 cm.). Title from container. "Unabridged Fiction"--Container. "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container. Compact disc.
Physical Description:	1 sound disc (15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book. Issued also on cassette. Issued also as Recorded Books Unabridged Fiction on compact disc.
Audience:	6 years and up.
ISBN:	1419355341 9781419355349 1419355333 9781419355332 141935535X 9781419355356
Author Notes:	Patricia C. McKissack was born in Smyrna, Tennessee on August 9, 1944. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Tennessee State University in 1964 and a master's degree in early childhood literature and media programming from Webster University in 1975. After college, she worked as a junior high school English teacher and a children's book editor at Concordia Publishing. Since the 1980's, she and her husband Frederick L. McKissack have written over 100 books together. Most of their titles are biographies with a strong focus on African-American themes for young readers. Their early 1990s biography series, Great African Americans included volumes on Frederick Douglass, Marian Anderson, and Paul Robeson. Their other works included Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers and Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States. Over their 30 years of writing together, the couple won many awards including the C.S. Lewis Silver Medal, a Newbery Honor, nine Coretta Scott King Author and Honor awards, the Jane Addams Peace Award, and the NAACP Image Award for Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?. In 1998, they received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. She also writes fiction on her own. Her book included Flossie and the Fox, Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt, A Friendship for Today, and Let's Clap, Jump, Sing and Shout; Dance, Spin and Turn It Out! She won the Newberry Honor Book Award and the King Author Award for The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural in 1993 and the Caldecott Medal for Mirandy and Brother Wind. She dead of cardio-respiratory arrest on April 7, 2017 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography)