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Run Away Home
By McKissack, Pat
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-59046-751-3
- Publisher
- New York : Scholastic, 1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1997
Gr 5-8 It's 1888 in Alabama, and Sarah Crossman, the 12-year-old daughter of a Seminole woman and a freed slave, finds herself shielding an Apache boy who has escaped federal troops during the transport of Geronimo's followers to Mount Vernon. Her mother immediately sides with her and proceeds to nurse the unconscious Sky, but her father remains opposed. Mr. Crossman has already invited attention because he owns land coveted by others, refuses to be a sharecropper, and assists other blacks in passing nearly impossible voter regi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
