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008 990820r19991997nyu c 000 1 eng d
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_c$4.99 ($7.50 Can.)
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035 _a(OCoLC)42200805
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082 1 4 _a[Fic]
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100 1 _aPaulsen, Gary
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245 1 0 _aSarny, a life remembered /
_cGary Paulsen
260 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bBantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers,
_c1999
300 _a180 p. ;
_c18 cm
500 _aOriginally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1997
500 _a"Laurel-leaf books."
500 _aSequel to: Nightjohn
520 _aContinues 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
521 0 _a4.3
650 0 _aSlavery
_vFiction
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650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_vFiction
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650 0 _aTeaching
_vFiction
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655 7 _aFiction.
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