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  1. Douglass
    United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
    PATRICIA MCKISSACK: I admire Frederick Douglass’s determination and strength of character.
  2. impacted
    wedged or packed in together
    How do you suppose this exposure to books impacted your career?
  3. integrate
    make into a whole or make part of a whole
    So, when I started sixth grade at a newly integrated school, I took that idea with me.
  4. triumvirate
    a group of three people responsible for civil authority
    They were the “triumvirate.”
  5. dimensional
    relating to coordinates that determine a position in space
    I try to show a three dimensional picture of the
    people I’m writing about, and not a cookie stamp or cardboard cutout.
  6. flaw
    an imperfection in an object or machine
    But
    every hero has a flaw.
  7. grader
    a judge who assigns grades to something
    I get lots of letters from kindergarteners and
    first graders on that book and how much they enjoy it.
  8. literacy
    the ability to read and write
    I absolutely encourage literacy.
  9. synonym
    a word that expresses the same or similar meaning
    Different is not a synonym for wrong.
  10. maimed
    having a part of the body crippled or disabled
    When he ran away as a
    sailor, if he had been caught, he would have been probably jailed or severely beaten, maybe
    even crippled or maimed to keep him from running.
  11. rhythm
    an interval during which a recurring sequence occurs
    Once I’ve written my stories, I record them and listen to myself reading
    them back so I can see if it reads well and it has a good rhythm.
  12. merge
    mix together different elements
    I wrote The Honest-to-Goodness
    Truth as a guide for parents to use with their children and grandchildren.
    www.TeachingBooks.net
    5 of 7
    TEACHINGBOOKS: Many of your books, such as Mirandy and Brother Wind and Flossy and the
    Fox seamlessly merge folklore and history into a good read with historical and cultural
    underpinnings.
  13. integrated
    formed or united into a whole
    So, when I started sixth grade at a newly integrated school, I took that idea with me.
  14. contracting
    becoming infected
    For example, I was working on Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of
    World War II. Fred’s grandfather, Papa Mose McKissack, was the contracting builder of the
    Tuskegee Air Base at Tuskegee University in Alabama.
  15. maim
    injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
    When he ran away as a
    sailor, if he had been caught, he would have been probably jailed or severely beaten, maybe
    even crippled or maimed to keep him from running.
  16. freedman
    a person who has been released from enslavement
    When Russell Freedman did his Lincoln book (Lincoln:
    A Photobiography) and won the Newbery Award for it, how many Lincoln books had been
    published prior to that?
  17. contributing
    tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
    TEACHINGBOOKS: You’ve been contributing mightily to the offerings of books about the
    African-American experience, past and present, setting an example for many writers today.
  18. integration
    the act of combining into a whole
    TEACHINGBOOKS: Please share more about that special teacher you had during your first year
    of school integration.
  19. independently
    on your own; without outside help
    Each one of them independently came
    to me and said, “You know Mom, I’d like to do a book with you.”
  20. founding
    the act of starting something for the first time
    Biographers made the founding fathers seem like they were men who were without a
    single flaw in their character.
  21. foliage
    the collective amount of leaves of one or more plants
    Our illustrator visited Shirley Plantation at Christmastime so that he could
    actually see what the house and the foliage and everything looked like at Christmas.
  22. spirited
    displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
    I told them,
    “Now listen: you cannot just tell the truth in a hurtful, mean-spirited way, and that’s what you’ve
    been doing.
  23. plantation
    an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
    We went to Shirley
    Plantation, the oldest plantation that’s still operating.
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