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Trapped between the lash and the gun : a boy's journey / Arvella Whitmore.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.W598 Tr 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitmore, Arvella.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Time travel--Juvenile fiction.
- Time travel.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Time travel--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 184 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books, [©1999]
- Summary:
- Twelve-year-old Jordan is becoming dangerously involved with a street gang when he is suddenly transported through time to become a slave on the plantation of his ancestors.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Debora Smith"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "Jacket artwork copyright 1999 by David Kahl."
- American Library Association-YA award book.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Whitmore, Arvella. Trapped between the lash and the gun.
- ISBN:
- 0803723849
- 9780803723849
- OCLC:
- 38595442
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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