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Robinet, Harriette Gillem

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

132 pp. | Atheneum/Karl | November, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-689-82078-X $$16.00
(4) 4-6 During Reconstruction, twelve-year-old Pascal, his friend Nelly, and his older brother Gideon seek freedom and the forty acres and a mule promised to former slaves by General William T. Sherman of the Union Army. They eventually get a farm, but keeping it, and freedom, proves to be much more difficult. The novel strays at times and bogs down in spots, but overall provides a good read. Bib.
Reviewer: Deborah L. Thompson

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