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Author: Joyce Hansen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0545280907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twelve-year-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.
Author: Joyce Hansen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0545389003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joyce Hansen's Coretta Scott King Honor Book I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Patsy, an orphaned slave with a bad leg and a quiet nature, is considered slow by the Davis family. But Patsy's smart -- smart enough to learn to read and write on the sly. After the Civil War ends and slavery is abolished, Patsy believes Master Davis's promise to pay the former house slaves and to educate the slave children. But when the master ignores his promise to establish a school and the Freedmen's Bureau cannot provide a teacher, Patsy steps in to teach the students to read and write.Patsy's diary is filled with courage, conviction, and hope as she strives toward her freedom.
Author: Joyce Hansen
Publisher: Live Oak Media (NY)
Published: 2005-04-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781595194701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this latest addition to the Dear America series, Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Joyce Hansen presents the inspiring story of Patsy, a freed girl who becomes a great teacher.
Author: Pat McKissack
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780545265553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859"--Cover.
Author: Ann Rinaldi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781439108802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood. He had become part of the Gone. Oney Judge is a slave. But on the plantation of Mount Vernon, the beautiful home of George and Martha Washington, she is not called a slave. She is referred to as a servant, and a house servant at that -- a position of influence and respect. When she rises to the position of personal servant to Martha Washington, her status among the household staff -- black or white -- is second to none. She is Lady Washington's closest confidante and for all intents and purposes, a member of the family -- or so she thinks. Slowly, Oney's perception of her life with the Washingtons begins to crack as she realizes the truth: No matter what it's called, it's still slavery and she's still a slave. Oney must make a choice. Does she stay where she is -- comfortable, with this family that has loved her and nourished her and owned her since the day she was born? Or does she take her liberty -- her life -- into her own hands, and like her father, become one of the Gone? Told with immense power and compassion, Taking Liberty is the extraordinary true story of one young woman's struggle to take what is rightfully hers.
Author: Carol Lynch Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-08-05
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1847389392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. That is, without questioning them much - if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.
Author: Christina Dodd
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0061739901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lady Saura of Roget lives a lonely life of servitude—her fortune controlled by her cruel, unscrupulous stepfather. Yet it is she who has been called upon to brighten the days of Sir William of Miraval, a proud and noble knight who once swore to live or perish by the sword . . . until his world was engulfed in agonizing darkness. Summoned to Sir William's castle, the raven-haired innocent is soon overcome by desire and love for the magnificent, golden warrior who has quickly laid siege to her heart. But there is grave danger awaiting them both just beyond the castle walls . . . and a dear and deadly price to be paid for surrendering to a fiery, all-consuming love.
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 0545414962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the MAYFLOWER. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything to meet and befriend a Native American.
Author: Ann Warren Turner
Publisher: Dear America
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780439153089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence Emerson keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.
