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Author:
Lyons, Mary E.
Title:
Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies / by Mary E. Lyons & Muriel M. Branch.
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc.,
Copyright Date:
2001, c2000
Description:
x, 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Van Lew, Elizabeth L.,--1818-1900--Juvenile fiction.
Van Lew, Elizabeth L.,--1818-1900--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Abolitionists--Fiction.
United States--History--1849-1877--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Scrapbooks--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Branch, Muriel Miller.
Notes:
"Published ... by arrangement with Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division."--T.p. verso. "This edition is only available for distribution through the school market."--P. [4] cover.
Summary:
A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
ISBN:
9780439342582
0439342589
Locations:
AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

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