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Age Range
6 - 8
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2012-01-01
Page Count
32
Publisher
Penguin
Grade Level
1st - 3rd
ISBN
9780399160011
Themes
civil war
slavery
freedom
family

Hope's Gift

Written by Kelly Starling Lyons and Illustrated by Don Tate
Written to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation, this is the story of a little girl, her family, and her people's hope for freedom. When Hope's father sneaks away to fight for the Union army, she listens to the sound of freedom from inside a conch shell that he leaves with her.

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Age Range
6 - 8
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2012-01-01
Page Count
32
Publisher
Penguin
Grade Level
1st - 3rd
ISBN
9780399160011
Themes
civil war
slavery
freedom
family
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