Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North (Dear America)

by Patricia C. McKissack

Hardcover, 2000

Status

Available

Series

Dear America (Early Civil Rights: Chicago, Illinois, 1919)

Dear America - Publication Order (18)

Dear America Collections (Dear America: Early Civil Rights, 1919)

My Story

Genres

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

Scholastic Inc. (2000), Edition: 1st Edition, 222 pages

Description

Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

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Rating

(61 ratings; 4)

Media reviews

New York Times

I LOVE IT! it was such heart-warming book. I loved Nellie Lee, she was just such a strong little girl who went through so much, but never burdened anyone. The love she had for her family was just 10/10

User reviews

LibraryThing member t1bclasslibrary

This has been one of my favorite of all the fake historical journals -which surprised me because it's not really a time period or event that I'm particularly interested in. It really read like a story- I grew to know the characters, and I got caught up in it. Many of the historical fiction diaries

are very contrived, but this one read naturally.

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LibraryThing member justagirlwithabook

I don't remember much of these books as individual books, but I remember reading them all as a young, avid reader. I think that ultimately these books are the reason why I love historical fiction novels so much. They all did such a great job of taking me to a different time and place and making it

come alive, seeing the world through an older, historical lens. I highly recommend any of the Dear America books to younger readers who love history and need to get hooked on reading!

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