Cover of My Home Is over Jordan

Book 2000

My Home Is over Jordan

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Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
Published
2000
  • African Americans
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Prejudices
  • History
  • Fiction, general
  • Southern states, fiction
  • Family life, fiction

No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.