| Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters Contributor(s): Lassieur, Allison (Author), Freeberg, Eric (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1631632760 ISBN-13: 9781631632761 Publisher: Jolly Fish Press OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2018038112 |
| Lexile Measure: 670 |
| Series: I Am America |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.8" W x 7.4" (0.35 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Black History - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Geographic Orientation - Kansas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hattie Jacobs has a secret dream: to go to school to become a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee, after Reconstruction. When the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas, their journey in search of a better life is filled with danger and hardship. Will they make it to the Mississippi River unharmed? What will be waiting for them in Kansas, and will it live up to their dreams? It's the storytellers that preserve a nation's history. But what happens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series features fictional stories based on important historical events about people whose voices have been excluded, lost, or forgotten over time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Freeberg, Eric: - Eric Freeberg has illustrated over twenty-five books for children, and has created work for magazines and ad campaigns. He was a winner of the 2010 London Book Fair's Children's Illustration Competition; the 2010 Holbein Prize for Fantasy Art, International Illustration Competition, Japan Illustrators' Association; Runner-Up, 2013 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award; Honorable Mention, 2009 SCBWI Don Freeman Portfolio Competition; and 2nd Prize, 2009 Clymer Museum's Annual Illustration Invitational. He was also a winner of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award.Lassieur, Allison: - Allison Lassieur once lived in Tennessee and traveled the path Hattie and her family might have followed from Nashville to the banks of the Mississippi River near Memphis. Today she lives in upstate New York and shares a 110-year-old house with her husband, her daughter, three dogs, two cats, and more history books than she can count. |