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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.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Copyright Date:
c2000
Description:
x, 161 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Van Lew, Elizabeth L.,--1818-1900.--Juvenile fiction.
Van Lew, Elizabeth L.,--1818-1900.--Fiction.
Van Lew, Elizabeth L.,--1818-1900.--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Abolitionists.--Fiction.
Scrapbooks.--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Abolitionists.--Fiction.
Scrapbooks.--Fiction.
United States--History--1849-1877.--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
United States--History.--Fiction.
United States--History--1861-1865, Civil War--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Branch, Muriel Miller.
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.
Indexed by:
Wilson's Junior High School
School Library Journal starred
Books for the Teen Age (NYPL)
ISBN:
9780439406437
0439406439
Locations:
CVPA586 -- Letts Public Library (Letts)

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