Scott O'Dell Award winner, 1999, for Historical Fiction. Slavery has ended, but can Pascal find freedom? A notable children's book in the field of Social Studies. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was saomething you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives. Coming alive in plain, vibrant language is this story of the Reconstruction, after the Civil War.

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Harriette Gillem Robinet

ScholasticInc

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve-years-old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom it promises.

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Demco Media

Mississippi Chariot

In Depression-era Mississippi, 12-year-old Shortnin' Bread Jackson discovers his father may be lynched for a crime he didn't commit and decides that the only way to avoid this racially explosive dilemma is to move his family north to a new life in Chicago. Robinet blends arresting historical fiction with accessible situations to create an eye-opening look at life during this tumultuous period.

Literature & Fiction

Bt Bound

Children of the Fire

Missing from Haymarket Square

Her loving father's major concern is the struggle for better working conditions in factories and mills. Her mother thinks mostly of the terrible injury she has received in a sewing factory. Therefore Dinah Bell must care for herself. But not only herself. She and two other children, Austrian immigrants who do not mind that Dinah is the child of former slaves, not only work twelve-hour days to help support their families with the three dollars a week they each earn, but they do even more. All five families that depend on them for food live together in one rat-and-roach infested room in a Chicago tenement. The children steal, though they hate being thieves.  Other concerns vanish, however, when in the spring of 1886, Dinah's father is taken prisoner by the dreaded Pinkertons -- detectives who help factory owners get rid of unions and their organizers. Now, Dinah must find where her father is being held and free him. On May first there is a march of eighty thousand workers, demonstrating for an eight-hour day. The march is why Mr. Noah Bell has been taken prisoner, and the march and its aftermath, the Haymarket Riot, put Dinah in constant danger. Yet she is determined to succeed. Her father must be freed.  Once again Harriette Gillem Robinet portrays likeable children, with their needs and struggles, against a background of real events in American history. The result is an exciting story that reveals important truths about the American past.

Twins, the Pirates, and the Battle of New Orleans

Twins Pierre and Andrew join forces to rescue their mother and sister from slavery, just as the Battle of New Orleans is raging. Along the way, the twins confront alligators, pirates, and hidden caves.

Tandem Library

education - reading - elementary level, includes many recommended books for young readers

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Teen & Young Adult

Perfection Learning

Winner of the 1999 Scott O'Dell Award
A Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies
"Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself."
Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives. Coming alive in plain, vibrant language is this story of the Reconstruction, after the Civil War.

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (Jean Karl Books)

Eleven-year-old Hallelujah is fascinated by the fires burning all over the city of Chicago. Little does she realize that her life will be changed forever by the flames that burn with such bright fascination for her.  The year is 1871 and this event will later be called the Great Chicago Fire. Hallelujah and her newfound friend Elizabeth are as different as night and day; but their shared solace will bind them as friends forever, as a major American city starts to rebuild itself.

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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Mississippi Chariot

Children of the Fire

Missing from Haymarket Square

Twins, the Pirates, and the Battle of New Orleans

The World Is Round Just Like an Orange : Many Ways of Learning (Scott Foresman's Celebrate Reading, Grade 4, Book B)

Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues (Jean Karl Books (Prebound))

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (Jean Karl Books)

Children of the Fire