Eleven-year-old Harriet Whitehead is an outsider in her own family. She feels accepted and important only when she is entrusted to write letters for her blind stepmother. Then Nat Turner, a slave preacher, arrives on her family8217;s plantation and Harriet befriends him, entranced by his gentle manner and eloquent sermons about an all-forgiving God. When Nat asks Harriet for a map of the county to help him spread the word, she draws it for him8212;wanting to be part of something important. But the map turns out to be the missing piece that sets Nat8217;s secret plan in motion and makes Harriet an unwitting accomplice to the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history.
Award-winning historical novelist Ann Rinaldi has created a bold portrait of an ordinary young girl thrust in to a situation beyond her control.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: Social Issues / Prejudice + Racism, Girls + Women, Historical / United States / 19th Century
- Age: Teen
- Publisher: Graphia
- Pages: 217
- Edition: Reprint
- Language:
English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date:
May 24, 2010
- Date Published:
May 24, 2010
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Author: Ann Rinaldi
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- Online Item #: 12304758
- Store Item Number (DPCI): 248-43-9099
- ISBN: 9780547327853
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