Love twelve miles long
By: by Glenda Armand ; illustrated by Colin Bootman
Contributors: Bootman, Colin, ill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781600602450
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Fiction; Childhood and youth; Slavery
Description: In 1820s Maryland, Frederick's mother, who is a slave on a different plantation, walks twelve miles each way for a nighttime visit with her son, during which she recounts what each mile of the journey represents. Based on the childhood of Frederick Douglass.