Away west /
by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Gordon C. James.
- New York : Scholastic, 2006.
- 121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.