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Promises to the Dead
By Hahn, Mary Downing
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39596-394-4
- Publisher
- New York : Clarion Books, c2000.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2000
Gr 4-6 Despite some unlikely coincidences and superficial secondary characters, this is a reasonably exciting adventure story that integrates many historical details. When 12-year-old Jesse, a white Southerner, promises Lydia, a slave who dies while trying to escape, that he will take her young son, Perry, to relatives in Baltimore, he finds himself not only traveling farther than he's ever been, but caught up in the outbreak of the Civil War a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
