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Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
Title:
Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
Author:
McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.
Personal Author:
McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic, [1994]

©1994
Physical Description:
xi, 68 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary:
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
960 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.4 1.0 12696.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 6.2 3 Quiz: 02182.
Subject Term:
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.

Christmas -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.

Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.

Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. -- Juvenile literature.

Christmas -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. -- Juvenile literature.

Enslaved persons -- Social life and customs. -- Juvenile literature.
Geographic Term:
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile literature.

Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865. -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author:
McKissack, Fredrick.

Thompson, John, 1940- ,
ISBN:
9780590430272
Format :
Book

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