
My great-grandmama’s mama told her and she told me this story about a long time ago . . .So begins this account of the author’s great-great-grandmother Jane, and how she meets a slave new to the plantation, a slave who would prove to have magical powers . . . created by the wish for freedom. Alice McGill remembers this story, passed down in her family through the generations, from her childhood an...
Age Range: 7 - 10 years
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Lexile Measure: 730L
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (March 21, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 061838796X
ISBN-13: 978-0618387960
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 0.4 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 603642
Format: PDF ePub fb2 TXT fb2 book
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Alice McGill's great-grandmama's mama was named Jane. She was a slave on Ol' Man Deboreaux's plantation in Georgia. They called him Ol' Man in private, but when they were working for him they were supposed to call him "master." In 1842 when Jane w...
reatgrandmother told it to her “as if unveiling a great, wonderful secret. My siblings and I believed that certain Africans shared this gift of taking to the air—‘way up and over everything.’”