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Sto caricando le informazioni... Promises to the Dead (2000)di Mary Downing Hahn
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Jesse's grumpy uncle has sent him out in the rain to hunt for a turtle for soup. Before Jesse's realizes it, someone has grabbed him from behind. It is a pregnant runaway slave who is in labor and needs help. Jesse makes his first promise to the dead. Bound by this promise he must find a way to help this woman's young son. Through fulfilling his promise, Jesse gets into more trouble, and a second promise to the dead, this one worse than the first. Find out if Jesse is able to keep either promise as you read this exciting adventure. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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As historical fiction goes, it's not bad--the plot moves along at a consistent pace and the drama of the slave-catcher on their tail keeps tension. A lengthy author's note at the end explains which events really happened and which were fabricated, and gives some background on the era. The plot winds through a number of contrivances in which every stop houses one of Perry's relations before ultimately depositing him with his grandmother and sending Jesse back home just in time to nurse his uncle back from the brink of death. This is a relatively short (200 pages) book to fulfill historical reading assignments, but teens picking this up based on the author's name are bound to be disappointed as this is not her usual supernatural horror story. ( )