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Sarny: A Life Remembered
"So many readers have written and asked: What happened to Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in Nightjohn? Extraordinary things happened to her, from the moment she fled the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, suddenly a free woman in search of her sold-away children, until she found them and began a new life. Sarny’s story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of trial, tragedy, and hoped-for change, until her last days in the 1930s. 'A satisfying sequel … It is a great read, with characters both to hate and to cherish, and a rich sense of what it really was like then.'—Booklist, starred review"
Gary Paulsen (Author), Lynne Thigpen (Narrator)
Audiobook · 4 hrs 15 mins
"In 1896, Mary Emmons is surprised when her grandmother takes her along to visit an old friend in Toronto named Bethlehem. Mary has led a sheltered life in New York City, far from hardship and danger. But when Mary meets the ancient woman, the personal history she shares removes the blinders from Mary's eyes, forcing the girl to recognize prejudice and injustice for the first time. As a young girl, Suzanna, Mary's grandmother, is sent to live with her uncle in the South. Seeing slaves for the first time, and the horrible way they are treated, Suzanna decides to run away, back to her home in Vermont. When she leaves, though, she is not alone. Disguised as a boy, the young slave Bethlehem escapes with her. As the story of these two brave young women is told through alternating chapters, they share the dangers they face on the perilous journey from Virginia to freedom. Award-winning narrators Christina Moore, Barbara Caruso, and Lynne Thigpen masterfully capture each riveting conflict and difficult decision."
Jennifer Armstrong (Author), Barbara Caruso , Christina Moore , Lynne Thigpen (Narrator)
Audiobook · 5 hrs 27 mins
The House of Dies Drear
"One hundred years ago, Dies Drear and two runaway slaves hiding in his house, an important station on the Underground Railroad, were murdered. Legend has it that the ghost of Mr. Drear still haunts the lonely old house. But Thomas Small's father, a Civil War history professor, doesn't believe the legends and buys the house. The house is fascinating, thinks Thomas, and it is filled with hidden doorways and secret passages that he can't wait to explore. But funny things keep happening-frightening things that no one, not even Thomas' father, can explain. Is someone playing a prank? Or is the ghost of Dies Drear trying to warn the Smalls of danger? From Virginia Hamilton, the author of the Newbery Medal and National Book Award winning M.C. Higgins, the Great, comes a spellbinding mystery filled with edge-of-the-seat suspense. The House of Dies Drear wraps an important history lesson into a brilliantly imaginative story for all ages."
Virginia Hamilton (Author), Lynne Thigpen (Narrator)
"Jamaica doesn’t like wearing her brother’s old hand-me-down boots to school. She’s happy when the tiny hole in the toe gets bigger. Now her mother will have to take her shopping for new boots. She wants to buy some beautiful fuzzy pink ones like her friend Brianna’s, but Brianna might think she’s copying. So she picks out a pair of fancy cowboy boots. When Brianna tells Jamaica that cowboy boots aren’t “in,” Jamaica tells Brianna that her boots are ugly. Now everyone’s feelings are hurt."
Juanita Havill (Author), Lynne Thigpen (Narrator)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
"Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning masterpiece with an introduction written and read by Jacqueline Woodson, just in time for its 40th Anniversary! Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story--Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect."
Mildred D. Taylor (Author), Jacqueline Woodson , Lynne Thigpen (Narrator)
Audiobook · 7 hrs 26 mins
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