Addy learns a lesson : a school story / by Connie Porter ; illustrations by Melodye Rosales ; vignettes, Renee Graef and Jane Varda.

Title:

Author:

Porter, Connie Rose, 1959-

Rosales, Melodye

ISBN:

9781562470777

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Middleton, WI : Pleasant Co., c1993.

Physical Description:

68 p.

Series:

American Girls Collection

Abstract:

After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.

Subject Term:

Fugitive slaves -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction.

Added Author:

Rosales, Melodye

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Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia to begin life as free people. Everything is new to them in the big city. Addy is happy - she has a friend for the first time, Sarah, and she is learning to read and write. In school, Addy sits next to Harriet. Harriet is smart, wealthy, and popular. She has the life that Addy thought freedom would bring her. Addy hopes to be friends with Sarah and Harriet, but she ends up having to choose between them. Addy?s choice teaches her about real friendship and real freedom.

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American Girls Collection. Without romanticizing a shameful period in American history, the compelling and gripping narratives focus on Addy, a young girl enslaved in North Carolina who escapes to freedom with her mother, and her struggles as a free person trying to learn to read. Each book ends with an informative synopsis of the African-American experience during the time period. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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