01075cam a2200265 4500 121327326 TxAuBib 20110329120000.0 970116s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97002170 /AC 9780590849135 alk. paper 0590849131 alk. paper DLC DLC CBL C#P TxAuBib Hansen, Joyce. I thought my soul would rise and fly [HC] : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl / by Joyce Hansen. New York : Scholastic, 1997. 202 p. : ill., maps, music ; 22 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. 20060614. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Juvenile fiction. United States History 1865-1898 Juvenile fiction. Dear America.