Award-winning author Caroline Pignatâs new historical novel recreates the world of a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1858. Through the different points of view of slaves, their masters and a visiting bird-watcher the world of the plantation comes to live in this verse novel. Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen. She sees how the other slaves are treated â the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasnât seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago. But Pheobe is trying to learn words and how to read and when she is asked to show the masterâs Canadian visitor, Doctor Bergman, where he can find warblers and chickadees she starts to see things differently. And Doctor Bergman has more in mind that just drawing the local birds. Pheobeâs friend Shad works on the plantation as well â but mostly he worries about his brother Will. His brother is the last member of his family and he is determined to escape from the master and the tobacco plantation. He has already been caught and beaten more than once. And the stories about life in Canada canât be true, can they? How does a man survive without the master there taking care of everything?
Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Historical Fiction
- United States
- Civil War Period
- United States
- Historical Fiction
Publisher : Red Deer Press
Author : Pignat, Caroline
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2014-10-01
Number Of Pages : 328
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0889954933
ISBN-13 : 9780889954939
Item weight : 0.79 lb
Dimensions : 0.87 in x 5.28 in x 7.4 in
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