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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

2011-02-22 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2011-02-22
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 238/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by : Harriette Gillem Robinet

Download or read book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule written by Harriette Gillem Robinet. This book was released on 2011-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.

Children of the Fire

2008-09-09 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2008-09-09
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Children of the Fire by : Harriette Gillem Robinet

Download or read book Children of the Fire written by Harriette Gillem Robinet. This book was released on 2008-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Hallelujah is fascinated by the fires burning all over the city of Chicago. Little does she realize that her life will be changed forever by the flames that burn with such bright fascination for her. The year is 1871 and this event will later be called the Great Chicago Fire. Hallelujah and her newfound friend Elizabeth are as different as night and day; but their shared solace will bind them as friends forever, as a major American city starts to rebuild itself.

Forty Acres

2014-07 Fiction
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Release : 2014-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 539/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Forty Acres by : Dwayne Smith

Download or read book Forty Acres written by Dwayne Smith. This book was released on 2014-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thriller about a Black society with a secret"--

Walking to the Bus-rider Blues

2000 African Americans
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Release : 2000
Genre : African Americans
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Book Rating : 919/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Walking to the Bus-rider Blues by : Harriette Robinet

Download or read book Walking to the Bus-rider Blues written by Harriette Robinet. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in the summer of 1956.

Missing from Haymarket Square

2030-12-31 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2030-12-31
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 246/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Missing from Haymarket Square by : Harriette Gillem Robinet

Download or read book Missing from Haymarket Square written by Harriette Gillem Robinet. This book was released on 2030-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her loving father's major concern is the struggle for better working conditions in factories and mills. Her mother thinks mostly of the terrible injury she has received in a sewing factory. Therefore Dinah Bell must care for herself. But not only herself. She and two other children, Austrian immigrants who do not mind that Dinah is the child of former slaves, not only work twelve-hour days to help support their families with the three dollars a week they each earn, but they do even more. All five families that depend on them for food live together in one rat-and-roach infested room in a Chicago tenement. The children steal, though they hate being thieves. Other concerns vanish, however, when in the spring of 1886, Dinah's father is taken prisoner by the dreaded Pinkertons -- detectives who help factory owners get rid of unions and their organizers. Now, Dinah must find where her father is being held and free him. On May first there is a march of eighty thousand workers, demonstrating for an eight-hour day. The march is why Mr. Noah Bell has been taken prisoner, and the march and its aftermath, the Haymarket Riot, put Dinah in constant danger. Yet she is determined to succeed. Her father must be freed. Once again Harriette Gillem Robinet portrays likeable children, with their needs and struggles, against a background of real events in American history. The result is an exciting story that reveals important truths about the American past.

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