Trouble don't last
Record details
- ISBN: 1439521824
- ISBN: 9781439521823
- ISBN: 9780440418115
- ISBN: 0440418119
- ISBN: 0440418119 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
237 pages : map ; 20 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Dell Yearling, 2003, ©2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | A Dell Yearling Book. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 236). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Trouble -- The Broken Plate -- Harrison's Warning -- Old Master Hackler's Ghost -- Onions -- Still as a Tree -- Night Scare -- Spiders and Candles -- Two Fingers Gone -- River of Death -- Cornfield Bottoms -- The River Man -- Hetty Scott -- A Forest of Silence -- The Gray Yarn -- Widow Taylor -- Beneath Hay and Feed Sacks -- Our Poor Colored Brethren -- Laid to Rest -- Carryin On -- Ham, Eggs, and Miz Kettle -- A Stringer of Fish -- Green Murdock -- Ace of Spades -- Negro Hollow -- Red Stars in a White Sky -- Harrison's Secret -- Snow Coming -- Ordee Lee -- Going North -- Haste Will Be Your Undoing -- Keep Your Eye on the Sun. |
Summary, etc.: | Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he's ever known, until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and, together, they run. The journey north seems much more frightening than Master Hackler ever was, and Samuel's not sure what freedom means aside from running, hiding, and starving. But as they move from one refuge to the next on the Underground Railroad, Samuel uncovers the secret of his own past, and future. And old Harrison begins to see past a whole lifetime of hurt to the promise of a new life--and a poignant reunion, in Canada. In a heartbreaking and hopeful first novel, Shelley Pearsall tells a suspenseful, emotionally charged story of freedom and family. Trouble Don't Last includes a historical note and map. |
Target Audience Note: | Middle School. 720 Lexile. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader 4.8. Reading Counts! 5.4. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee 2006 Nutmeg Award Nominee, Intermediate, 2006. |
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Babcock Library - Ashford | J Pea (Text) | 33110143368114 | Juvenile Nutmeg | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | J PBK FIC Pea (Text) | 33160122239554 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | J PEARSALL (Text) | 34000073538183 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
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