Addy's Surprise
Subtitle: A Christmas Story
By: by Connie Porter ; illustrations, Melodye Rosales ; vignettes, Renée Graef, Jane S. Varda.
Contributors: Rosales, Melodye, ill.
Series: The American girls collection
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Christmas -- Juvenile fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; Freedmen -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace
Description: Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.
Notes: Originally published: Middleton, WI : Pleasant Co., c1993.

Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace

"Ages 7 and up"--Cover p. [4].
Table of contents: title: Addy's family and friends; title: Winds of winter; title: Something pretty; title: Freedom ain't free; title: The cost of freedom; title: Christmas surprises; title: Looking back.