Sarny, a life remembered /
Paulsen, Gary
Sarny, a life remembered / Gary Paulsen - New York, N.Y. : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1999 - 180 p. ; 18 cm
Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1997 "Laurel-leaf books." Sequel to: Nightjohn
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four. In this companion novel to the acclaimed "Nightjohn, " Sammy, the young slave girl who learned to read in "Nightjohn, " is now a young widow. She flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Sarny's story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of tragedy, trial, and hoped-for change, until her last days in the 1930s
4.3
0440219736 : $4.99 ($7.50 Can.) 9780440219736
Slavery--Fiction
African Americans--Fiction
Teaching--Fiction
Fiction.
[Fic]
Sarny, a life remembered / Gary Paulsen - New York, N.Y. : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1999 - 180 p. ; 18 cm
Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1997 "Laurel-leaf books." Sequel to: Nightjohn
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four. In this companion novel to the acclaimed "Nightjohn, " Sammy, the young slave girl who learned to read in "Nightjohn, " is now a young widow. She flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Sarny's story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of tragedy, trial, and hoped-for change, until her last days in the 1930s
4.3
0440219736 : $4.99 ($7.50 Can.) 9780440219736
Slavery--Fiction
African Americans--Fiction
Teaching--Fiction
Fiction.
[Fic]