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Sarny, a life remembered / Gary Paulsen

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1999Description: 180 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0440219736 :
  • 9780440219736
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 21
Summary: 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
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library FIC/PAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844300047095

Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1997

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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

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