Nightjohn Paulsen GaryPaperback
Nightjohn Paulsen GaryPaperback "To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. To…
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"To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them.
To learn." -- SarnySarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars.He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. That's why they don't want us reading." --Nightjohn "I didn't know what letters was, not what they meant, but I thought it might be something I wanted to know. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery to teach others how to read.
And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn.Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen's groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author
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