Pub Date: May 24, 2010
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0730
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 12 to UP
Physical Info: 0.75" H x 7.00" L x 4.00" W ( 0.31 lbs) 224 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Historical | United States 19th Century | Girls and Women | Social Themes | Prejudice and Racism | Diversity and Multicultural | Westerns | Violence | Animals | Pets | Places | Mexico | African American and Black | Religious | Christian Historical | Family | Multigenerational
Series: Great Episodes
Description: Eleven-year-old Harriet Whitehead, who serves as the letter writer for her blind stepmother, is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest and most effective slave uprisings in the history of America.
Brief description:
ANN RINALDI is an award-winning author best known for bringing history vividly to life. A self-made writer and newspaper columnist for twenty-one years, Ms. Rinaldi attributes her interest in history to her son, who enlisted her to take part in historical reenactments up and down the East Coast. She lives with her husband in central New Jersey.