The listeners
By: written by Gloria Whelan ; illustrated by Mike Benny.
Contributors: Benny, Mike, 1964- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chelsea, MI
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781585364190
Subjects: Slavery -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Listening -- Fiction; Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.