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The Story of Jonas
Dahlberg, Maurine F.
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BOOK SUMMARY
Jonas has lived all of his thirteen years on a farm in Missouri, and even though he hears whispers about freedom, he thinks hell never try to escape. He knows what happens to slaves who attempt to run away. Besides, Master William has promised to make Jon

BOOK SYNOPSIS

Jonas has lived all of his thirteen years on a farm in Missouri, and even though he hears whispers about freedom, he thinks he’ll never try to escape. He knows what happens to slaves who attempt to run away. Besides, Master William has promised to make Jonas his personal manservant, and Jonas thinks fine suits and special privileges sound like a dream. But this dream is put on hold when, in 1859, Master William’s good-for-nothing son, Percy, decides to seek his fortune in the Kansas Territory gold fields, taking Jonas along as his cook and caretaker. Although Percy is a brutal master, Jonas is surprised to find that the other members of the wagon train don’t hold his views about slavery. Jonas even befriends a doctor’s daughter, who teaches him how to read. And with each word Jonas learns, he discovers that there are much bigger dreams a boy can have than being another man’s servant.

In this unforgettable novel, Maurine F. Dahlberg tells the story of a slave coming to understand his own worth.

AUTHOR BIO
MAURINE F. DAHLBERG is the author of Escape to West Berlin, an NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and two other novels for young readers. She lives in Springfield, Virginia.
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BOOK REVIEWS
"The ability to let readers feel the essential cruelty of slavery without scenes of excessive brutality makes this well-crafted, engaging novel appropriate for a middle-grade audience." --Booklist

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374372640
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374372644
Dewey Decimal: [Fic]
Library of Congress: 2006041344
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 160

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