Porch lies : tales of slicksters, tricksters, and other wily characters / by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by André Carrilho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.

Contributor:

Carrilho, André, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories, American.

African Americans--Juvenile fiction.

African Americans.

African Americans--Fiction.

Short stories.

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 146 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

[1st ed.]

Place of Publication:

New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [©2006].

Summary:

A collection of stories told on the front porch of the authors grandparents' house.

Contents:

When Pete Bruce came to town

Change

The devil's guitar

Aunt Gran and the outlaws

By the weight of a feather

A grave situation

The best lie ever told

The earth bone and the King of the Ghosts

Cake Norris lives on, part one

Cake Norris lives on, part two.

Notes:

"Schwartz & Wade Books and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc."

"The text of this book is set in Filosofia and Handwriter."

"Book design by Rachael Cole."

"First Edition."

Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2007

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: McKissack, Pat, 1944- Porch lies.

ISBN:

0375836195

037593619X

1415693374

9780375936197

9780375836190

9781415693377

OCLC:

61278414

Publisher Number:

9780375936197

9780375836190

9781415693377

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

http://www.andrecarrilho.com/