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Nightjohn Author: "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." -- Sa... more »
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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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- Children's Books >> History >> Historical Fiction >> United States >> 1800s
- Children's Books >> People & Places >> Multicultural Stories >> African-American
- Teens >> Education & Reference >> History >> Historical Fiction
- Teens >> Authors, A-Z >> ( P ) >> Paulsen, Gary