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    612-822-4611

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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Minor, Wendell
Robinet, Harriette Gillem

Paperback

Series: Jean Karl Books (Paperback)

General Juvenile FictionHistory

Publisher Price: $7.99

ISBN10: 0689833172
ISBN13: 9780689833175
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: Feb 1 2000
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
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.

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