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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." -- Sa...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780440910145
ISBN-10: 0440910145
Publication Date: 9/1994
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, 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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