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Nixon, Joan Lowery

Will's Story: 1771

163 pp. | Delacorte | April, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32682-3 $$9.95
(3) 4-6 Young Americans series. Twelve-year-old Will Pelham's father takes a job as the gaoler for the city of Williamsburg, Virginia. As Will helps his father, he gets to know the prisoners. When he suspects that a runaway slave, whose plight he sympathizes with, is planning an escape, Will must decide what to do. This historically accurate and engaging story is based on the records of a real family. Background information is appended.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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