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Journey to a Promised Land

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Journey to a Promised Land

By Allison Lassieur

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About the book

Hattie Jacobs has a secret dream: to go to school to become a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee, after Reconstruction. When the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas, their journey in search of a better life is filled with danger and hardship. Will they make it to the Mississippi River unharmed? What will be waiting for them in Kansas, and will it live up to their dreams? It's the storytellers who preserve a nat...Show more

Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories

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ISBN

9781631632761

Publisher

Jolly Fish Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

Journey to a Promised Land

Format

Paperback

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