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Nightjohn
Nightjohn
Author: Gary Paulsen
"To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading." -- Nightjohn — "I didn't know what letters was, not what they meant, but I thought it might be something I wanted to know. To learn."--Sarny — Sar...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385308380
ISBN-10: 0385308388
Publication Date: 1/1/1993
Pages: 96
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Paulsen is one of my most favorite authors. You can't go wrong with any of his books. This amazing book is based on actual happenings. Nightjohn, a slave who had escaped to freedom but returned to slavery in order to teach other slaves to read, even though he knew the price for his actions could be death.
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