Hansen, Joyce <br/><br/>
I thought my soul would rise and fly :  the diary of Patsy, a freed girl / 
by Joyce Hansen. 
 - New York :  Scholastic Inc,  c1997. 
 - 204 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. 
<br/><br/> 12 years 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0590849131