Dream freedom
By: Sonia Levitin
Publisher: Silver Whistle
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780152024048
Subjects: Families; Schools; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Slavery; Family life
Description: Marcus and his classmates learn about the terrible problem of slavery in present-day Sudan and raise money to help buy the freedom of some of the slaves. Alternate chapters tell the stories of the slaves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Small things: Marcus's story; title: Western United States; title: Words of chiefs; title: Dinkaland, Southern Sudan; title: Dabora's song; title: Northern Sudan; title: Snake story: little one's story; title: Dinkaland, Southern Sudan; title: Initiation: Koor's story; title: Dinkaland, southern Sudan; title: Small things: Marcus's story; title: Western United States; title: Betrothal: Alier's story; title: Northern Sudan; title: Secret: Rasha and Rola's story; title: Northern Sudan; title: Bearing gifts: Angela's story; title: Refugee camp, Nuba Mountains, Sudan; title: Small things: Marcus's story; title: Western United States; title: Lucky one: Aziz's story; title: Northern Sudan; title: Way of the world: Dabora's story; title: Northern Sudan; title: Forever kin: Majok's story; title: Refugee camp, Muba Mountains, Sudan; title: Small things: Marcus's story; title: Western United States; title: Escape: Adot's story; title: Northern Sudan; title: Small things: Marcus's story; title: Western United States; title: Mercy: Man's story; title: Dinkaland, Southern Sudan; title: Author's note: History of Sudan; title: Afterword; title: Barbara Vogel; title: Bibliography.