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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Harriette Gillem Robinet
出版Simon and Schuster, 2011-02-22
主題Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American & BlackJuvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / GeneralJuvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)Juvenile Fiction / General
ISBN14391362389781439136232
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MRkRcYrid0oC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction
A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies

Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel.

Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself.

Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own.

Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.