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Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom  Cover Image Book Book

Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom

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  • ISBN: 9780786851751
  • ISBN: 0786851759
  • Physical Description: [42] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Jump at the sun."
Art techniques used: dark, dramatic oil paintings, with specific attention to light and perspective.
Summary, etc.: Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 5-8.
Awards Note:
Caldecott Honor Book, 2007.
Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner, Illustrator, 2007.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2007.
Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2007
Subject: Tubman, Harriet 1820?-1913 Juvenile literature
Enslaved persons
Slaves United States Biography Juvenile literature
Underground Railroad Juvenile literature
African American women abolitionists Biography Juvenile literature
Abolitionists United States Biography Juvenile literature
African American women Biography Juvenile literature
Women Biography Juvenile literature
Tubman, Harriet 1820?-1913
Slaves
African American women Biography
Underground Railroad

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.

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