Crossing Bok Chitto : a Choctaw tale of friendship & freedom /
Tingle, Tim.
Crossing Bok Chitto : a Choctaw tale of friendship & freedom / by Tim Tingle ; illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. - 40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Wilson's Children, October 2010 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2007 School Library Journal, July 2006 Book Links (A.L.A.), May 2008 Booklist starred, April 2006 Pub Weekly, March 2006 New York Times, August 2006 Horn Book, October 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2006 Library Media Connection, November 2006
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
4.4 3-6 AD640L Lexile T Fountas
9780938317777 (hardback : alk. paper) 0938317776 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781933693200 (pbk.) 9781428712607 (Follett bdg.) 1933693207 1428712607
2005023612
Choctaw Indians--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Indigenous people of North America--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Choctaw Indians--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mississippi--History--19th century--Fiction.
Mississippi--History--Fiction.
PZ7.T489 / Cro 2006
E TIN
Crossing Bok Chitto : a Choctaw tale of friendship & freedom / by Tim Tingle ; illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. - 40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Wilson's Children, October 2010 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2007 School Library Journal, July 2006 Book Links (A.L.A.), May 2008 Booklist starred, April 2006 Pub Weekly, March 2006 New York Times, August 2006 Horn Book, October 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2006 Library Media Connection, November 2006
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
4.4 3-6 AD640L Lexile T Fountas
9780938317777 (hardback : alk. paper) 0938317776 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781933693200 (pbk.) 9781428712607 (Follett bdg.) 1933693207 1428712607
2005023612
Choctaw Indians--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Indigenous people of North America--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Choctaw Indians--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mississippi--History--19th century--Fiction.
Mississippi--History--Fiction.
PZ7.T489 / Cro 2006
E TIN