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Mary Downing Hahn

Promises to the Dead

Paperback (Sandpiper Aug. 17, 2009) , Reprint edition
When Jesse went down to the marsh on that fateful day, he expected to find a turtle for terrapin soup. Instead, he comes across a dying slave woman who makes Jesse promise he’ll take her young son, Perry, to a relative in Baltimore. Aiding and abetting a slave is against the law, and it also goes against everything Jesse has been taught to believe. But he can’t break a promise to the dead, and, more important, he has to follow what he knows in his heart to be right. The journey is more treacherous than Jesse ever imagined. At the crossroads of a country about to plunge into civil war, danger lurks around every corner. Will these boys on the run ever find a safe haven? Includes an author's note.
ISBN
0547258380 /
Pages
202
Weight
5.6 oz.
Dimensions
0.5 x 5.0 in.

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