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Escape south / by Kim Siegelson ; illustrated by Shelley Jackson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.S5757 Es 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegelson, Kim L.
- Series:
- Road to reading. Mile 5.
- Road to reading. Mile 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Florida--Juvenile fiction.
- Florida.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Seminole Indians--Fiction.
- Indians of North America--Florida--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Florida--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- High interest-low vocabulary books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York : Golden Books, ©2000.]
- Summary:
- Ben and his family escape from their slave-owner and go to Florida, where they join other black families who are living with the Seminole Indians and help them fight to keep their lands.
- Contents:
- Mister Tom's farm
- Escape!
- Seminole Indians
- War!
- Hidden
- Found
- Hope
- Peace
- Westbound.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has card "Ragbabies. 14 of 15. 'Beginnings' an original Rag Baby machine and hand-sewn. For Joanna, Merry Christmas with love, Sherri Lumpkin, December 1991" laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0307465047
- 9780307465047
- 0307265048
- 9780307265043
- OCLC:
- 43397789
- Online:
- Publisher description
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