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Chasing the Nightbird
- Title
- Chasing the Nightbird / Krista Russell.
- Author
- Russell, Krista.
- Publication
- Atlanta : Peachtree, c2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-7579 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 200 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In 1851 New Bedford, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Cape Verdean sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans.
- Subject
- Sailors > Fiction
- Fugitive slaves > Fiction
- Abolitionists > Fiction
- Conduct of life > Fiction
- Cape Verdean Americans > Fiction
- Sailors > Juvenile fiction
- Fugitive slaves > Juvenile fiction
- Abolitionists > Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
- Cabo Verdean Americans > Juvenile fiction
- Massachusetts > History > 1775-1865 > Fiction
- Massachusetts > History > 1775-1865 > Juvenile fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-7579
- ISBN
- 9781561455973
- 1561455970
- LCCN
- 2011002665
- OCLC
- 704379118
- Author
- Russell, Krista.
- Title
- Chasing the Nightbird / Krista Russell.
- Imprint
- Atlanta : Peachtree, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-7579