Title: My Home Is over Jordan
First published: 1997
Description: No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.
Subjects: African Americans, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Prejudices, History, Fiction, general, Southern states, fiction, Family life, fiction, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction
Places: North Carolina
LC classification: PZ7.F7717 My 1997