Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters
Written by: Patricia C. McKissack
Illustrated by: Andre Carrilho
Upper Elementary and Junior High Grades
"Like McKissack's award-winning The Dark Thirty (1992), the nine original tales in this uproarious collection draw on African American oral tradition and blend history and legend with sly humor, creepy horror, villainous characters, and wild farce. McKissack based the stories on those she heard as a child while sitting on her grandparents' porch; now she is passing them on to her grandchildren. Without using dialect, her intimate folk idiom celebrates the storytelling among friends, neighbors, and family as much as the stories themselves."
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