01807nam a22003017a 4500 5430 FISKH 20241206111958.0 241206b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780545621212 FISKH eng FISKH FISKH PS3573.R493 813.54 Wright, Barbara Crow / by Barbara Wright First Scholastic printing, October 2013 New York : Scholastic ; 2012. 296 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm . S The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power they've earned in the Wilmington, North Carolina, community. But not everyone is happy with the political changes at play and some will do anything, including a violent plot against the government, to maintain the status quo. One generation away from slavery, a thriving African American community--enfranchised and emancipated--suddenly and violently loses its freedom in turn of the century North Carolina when a group of local politicians stages the only successful coup d'etat in US history. 800 Lexile S Raz-Plus North Carolina Fiction Reconstruction Fiction Rodriguez, Edel illustrator ddc BK 0 5430 5430 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 SBS 2024-12-06 0 WRI 813.54 PS3573.R493 FISSE00989 2024-12-06 11:19:55 2024-12-06 BK