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Series
Young founders volume 3
Description
Reprint. Originally published: 2000."A Tom Doherty Associates book." Caleb Jacobson, a sixteen-year-old African American free man living on a Maryland farm in the 1700s, is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and his race when rumors of war begins arriving from Boston.
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Series
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Ages 7 and up"--Cover p. [4].Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War. "Early Chapter Books" collection--look for orange spine label.
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Series
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African-American history and the mystery of that eerie half-hour before nightfall--the dark thirty. "The atmosphere of each selection is skillfully developed and sustained to...