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Title Kin : rooted in hope / Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.
Author Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.
Publication Info. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023]
©2023
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Edition First edition.
Description 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-202).
Audience Ages 9 to 12. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Summary A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Subject African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Generations -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.
Maryland -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Slavery -- fiction.
Maryland -- History -- Fiction.
Historical / United States / Colonial & Revolutionary Periods.
People & Places / United States / African American.
Stories in Verse.
African Americans.
Families.
Generations.
Slavery.
Maryland.
Genre Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.
Added Author Weatherford, Jeffery Boston, illustrator.
ISBN 9781665913621 (hardcover) : $18.99
1665913622 (hardcover)