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The Gospel Truth

by Caroline Pignat
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Award-winning author Caroline Pignat's new historical novel recreates the world of a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1858. Through the different points of view of slaves, their masters and a visiting bird-watcher the world of the plantation comes to live in this verse novel.
Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen.
She sees how the other slaves are treated — the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago. But Phoebe is trying to learn words and how to read and when she is asked to show the master's Canadian visitor, Doctor Bergman, where he can find warblers and chickadees she starts to see things differently. And Doctor Bergman has more in mind that just drawing the local birds. Phoebe's friend Shad works on the plantation as well — but mostly he worries about his brother Will. His brother is the last member of his family and he is determined to escape from the master and the tobacco plantation. He has already been caught and beaten more than once. And the stories about life in Canada can't be true, can they? How does a man survive without the master there taking care of everything?
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Publisher: Red Deer Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: October 1, 2014

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781552443620
  • Release date: October 1, 2014

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781552443620
  • File size: 706 KB
  • Release date: October 1, 2014

PDF ebook

  • ISBN: 9781552443491
  • File size: 1786 KB
  • Release date: October 1, 2014

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
PDF ebook

subjects

Poetry Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:630
Text Difficulty:2-3

Award-winning author Caroline Pignat's new historical novel recreates the world of a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1858. Through the different points of view of slaves, their masters and a visiting bird-watcher the world of the plantation comes to live in this verse novel.
Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen.
She sees how the other slaves are treated — the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago. But Phoebe is trying to learn words and how to read and when she is asked to show the master's Canadian visitor, Doctor Bergman, where he can find warblers and chickadees she starts to see things differently. And Doctor Bergman has more in mind that just drawing the local birds. Phoebe's friend Shad works on the plantation as well — but mostly he worries about his brother Will. His brother is the last member of his family and he is determined to escape from the master and the tobacco plantation. He has already been caught and beaten more than once. And the stories about life in Canada can't be true, can they? How does a man survive without the master there taking care of everything?
Expand title description text
Poetry Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Red Deer Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: October 1, 2014

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781552443620
    Release date: October 1, 2014

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781552443620
    File size: 706 KB
    Release date: October 1, 2014

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781552443491
    File size: 1786 KB
    Release date: October 1, 2014

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 630
    Text Difficulty: 2-3