Author: Patricia C. McKissack
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Historical fiction, Fiction, Young adult, Children
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9780590259880
9787020120505
0590259881
7020120504 |
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Day or two later
Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.
But it is a word that aine never showed me no picture. While fannin' this afternoon, my eyes fell on "freedom" in a book William was readin'. No wonder I don't see nothin'. I been spellin' it F-R-E-D-U-M.
I put the right letters in my head to make sure I remembered their place. F-R-E-E-D-O-M. I just now wrote it. Still no picture...
This book is part of the "Dear America" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "So Far From Home"
First published in 2003
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 | "Hear My Sorrow"
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