01221cam a2200313 4500 51776524 TxAuBib 20090101120000.0 970116s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97002170 9780590849135 alk. paper 0590849131 alk. paper TxAuBib AAA Hansen, Joyce. I thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly the Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl / by Joyce Hansen. New York : Scholastic, 1997. p. cm. Dear America Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. 20090101. African Americans Juvenile fiction. African Americans Fiction. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Juvenile fiction. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Fiction. Diaries Fiction. United States History 1865-1898 Juvenile fiction. United States History 1865-1898 Fiction. Dear America.