Crow - Hardcover

Wright, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037586928X ISBN 13: 9780375869280

Verlag: Random House Childrens Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power they've earned in the Wilmington, North Carolina, community. But not everyone is happy with the political changes at play and some will do anything, including a violent plot against the government, to maintain the status quo.

One generation away from slavery, a thriving African American community—enfranchised and emancipated—suddenly and violently loses its freedom in turn of the century North Carolina when a group of local politicians stages the only successful coup d'etat in US history.

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BARBARA WRIGHT grew up in North Carolina, and has lived all over the world, from France, to Korea, to El Salvador. She has worked as a fact-checker forEsquire and as a screenwriter. This is her first novel for children.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House Childrens Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 037586928X
• ISBN 13: 9780375869280
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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