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.
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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.