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Author:

Brown, Linda Beatrice, 1939-

Title:

Black angels / Linda Beatrice Brown.

Publisher:

G. P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

260 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Wilderness survival--Juvenile fiction.
Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.
Southern States--History--1775-1865--Juvenile fiction.
Southern States--History--1865-1877--Juvenile fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Fiction.
Southern States--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
Southern States--History--1865-1877--Fiction.
Bildungsromans--Juvenile.

Summary:

Three Southern children, two black and one white, escape from their homes during the horrors of the Civil War and, after meeting in the woods, gradually come to rely on each other as they make their way slowly north, enduring hunger, fear, sickness, and constant danger, before arriving in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.

ISBN:

0399250301
9780399250309

OCLC:

(OCoLC)282947686

LCCN:

2008049244

Locations:

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

MLPA343 -- Rudd Public Library (Rudd)