Books with title Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters

Hattie Jacobs has a secret dream: to go to school to become a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee, after Reconstruction. When the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas, their journey in search of a better life is filled with danger and hardship. Will they make it to the Mississippi River unharmed? What will be waiting for them in Kansas, and will it live up to their dreams?It's the storytellers who preserve a nation's history. But what happens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series features fictional stories based on important historical events from people whose voices have been underrepresented, lost, or forgotten over time.

The people in the story are Hebrew and they live on Love Boot Island. They make their living by manufacturing boots from the skins of animals and other materials. They called the boots ‘Love Boots’ and they worked night and day making them. The symbol of the love boot, a small pink heart, was placed at the top on the outside of each boot. The boots were shipped to all parts of the world, and the people bought and loved them because of their design, durability, comfort and colors. Males and females of all ages wore their boots to parties, school, and work. For whatever the occasion, there were boots. One day it quit raining. Days passed, and still there wasn’t any rain. There was no water for the gardens and they dried up. The fresh green grass dried up and the land turned all brown. The trees did not have leaves on them anymore. Where the creeks and rivers once flowed, there was dried cracked mud. Everything was a sad sight because there wasn’t any more water. The people were desperate as they could not work and eat any more. Mommies and daddies went to the grocery store, but there was no more food on the shelves or in the land and the people were hungry, as the ‘Great Famine’ covered the land. In order to save their 777 famine babies, read the story to find out what the Hebrew people did. This is a family story and third graders and over will enjoy the reading.

The idea of the story, Journey to the Promised Land, was inspired by a vision Nancy had one day in 1985 while praying. The presence of God and the vision was so profound that Nancy knew that she had a responsibility to write what the Holy Spirit was giving her. The story did not come all at once. Days, months, and sometimes a year went by before she would get another thought on the story. The ending of the story did not come until after twenty-six years. It took twenty-eight years to complete her book.Young readers ages eight to sixteen will be amazed with many short stories within a big story. Each story has its own significance to enrich imaginations and get the reader's attention. The overall big story is to help children to become aware of the Promised Land, which is God's gift to Israel. Young children need to know more about the Promised Land. Two tribes of Hebrew people live on Love Boot Island, the tribes of Judah and Levi. It is thought they are Messianic Jews.There is a great famine in the land. The Hebrew parents love their famine babies so much that they put them in ten boats under the care of Captain Hershel D. Langley and his wife, Tillie B. Langley. There is no other way to save the famine babies. They sail for the Promised Land. Amazing things happen on this journey. Some critters sabotage the boats, and they become scattered in the ocean. In the story, readers will find out about the honor of keeping promises, how God made an unconditional covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This was God's promise, and God never breaks a promise. The story is both fictional and nonfictional, and the Holy Scriptures are true and real.