McKissack, Patricia C., 1944-2017.

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.

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Runaways--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Horses--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.

PZ7.M478693 / Awa 2006

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