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Annotation: Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.

Genre: [Realistic fiction] [Historical fiction]

Reviews: 9

Catalog Number: #117988

Format: Perma-Bound Edition

Publisher: Scholastic Book Service

Edition Date: 2008 Release Date: 05/01/08

Pages: 375 p.

ISBN: Publisher: 0-545-05575-X Perma-Bound: 0-605-40636-7

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-545-05575-8 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-40636-0

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 94117988

Dimensions: 18 cm.

Subject Heading:
African Americans. Fiction.
Family. Fiction.
Discrimination. Fiction.
Slavery. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book (Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 CST 1994)

Told in five sections that cover different time periods, a compelling saga follows an African-American family from Africa to South Carolina and spans a period of two hundred fifty years. In each generation, the book focuses on a strong teenage character in the Lewis family and on an ongoing fight for freedom, dignity, and continued ownership of the family's precious land, the Glory Field.

Reviewing Agencies: - Find Other Reviewed Titles
ALA/YALSA Best Book For Young Adults
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Horn Book (Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 CST 1994)
National Council For Social Studies Notable Children's Trade
New York Times Book Review
NCTE Adventuring With Books
NCTE High Interest-Easy Reading
NCTE Your Reading
Wilson's Junior High Catalog

Word Count: 79,758

Reading Level: 5.0

Interest Level: 7-12

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.0 / points: 12.0 / quiz: 10943 / grade: Upper Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:5.8 / points:14.0 / quiz:Q04553

Lexile: 800L

Guided Reading Level: X

Fountas & Pinnell: X

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.

"Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human."This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles that held some of its members captive -- even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of the land that holds them together throughout it all.

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