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Crossing Bok Chitto : a Choctaw tale of friendship & freedom / by Tim Tingle ; illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.T489 Cro 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tingle, Tim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Choctaw Indians--Juvenile fiction.
- Choctaw Indians.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi--Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- Mississippi--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Mississippi.
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Choctaw Indians--Fiction.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi--Fiction.
- Mississippi--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [40] unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- [El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press, ©2006.]
- Summary:
- In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
- Notes:
- "Book and cover design by Vicki Trego Hill of El Paso, Texas."
- Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2007.
- Texas Bluebonnet Master Award List 2008-2009.
- American Library Association, Notable Children's Book, 2007.
- Jane Addams Peace Award Honor Book.
- Once Upon A World Children's Book Award, 2007 Honor Book.
- Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award.
- Oklahoma Book Award, Best Children's Book, 2007.
- Oklahoma Book Award, Best Illustrations, 2007.
- Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.
- Skipping Stones Honor Book.
- Texas Institute of Letters Best Children's Book, 2006.
- Teddy Award, Texas Writers League, 2005.
- American Indian Youth Literature Award - Picture Book, Winner, 2008
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0938317776
- 9780938317777 :
- 9781933693200
- 1933693207
- 1428712607
- 9781428712607
- OCLC:
- 61520264
- Publisher Number:
- 9780938317777
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