Priscilla and the hollyhocks
By: Anne Broyles ; illustrated by Anna Alter.
Contributors: Alter, Anna, 1974- ill.
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Watertown, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781570916755
Subjects: Slavery -- Fiction; Hollyhock -- Fiction; Trail of Tears, 1838 -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A young African American girl is sold away from her mother as a slave, and then later is sold to a Cherokee Indian, but eventually she is bought by a white man who not only sets her free, but adopts her into his family of fifteen children. Based on a true story; includes instructions for making a hollyhock doll.