Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Harriette Gillem Robinet$6.79
$7.99
Winner of the 1999 Scott O'Dell Award
A Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies
Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself.
Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives. Coming alive in plain, vibrant language is this story of the Reconstruction, after the Civil War.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 02/01/2000
ISBN: 9780689833175
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/20/1999 pg. 82
Beyond the Cover Author Interv 02/01/2000 pg. 12
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 27750 / Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Reading Level: 4.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5
A Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies
Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself.
Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives. Coming alive in plain, vibrant language is this story of the Reconstruction, after the Civil War.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 02/01/2000
ISBN: 9780689833175
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/20/1999 pg. 82
Beyond the Cover Author Interv 02/01/2000 pg. 12
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 27750 / Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Reading Level: 4.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5