Format:
Book
Author:
Weatherford, Carole Boston, author.
Title:
Kin : rooted in hope / Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023]
Description:
pages cm
Summary:
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 9 to 12. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Family life -- Juvenile fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.
Slavery -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Maryland -- History -- Fiction.
Genre:
Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.
Juvenile poetry.
Other Author:
Weatherford, Jeffery Boston, illustrator.
Notes:
One Maryland, One Book 2025
Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN:
2022037395
ISBN:
9781665913621 (hardcover)
1665913622 (hardcover)
9781665913638 (paperback)
9798347104109 (paperback)
System Availability:
91
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
91
Control Number:
3470465
Call Number:
WEAT
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
29
# System items in:
29