Cover image for Kin : rooted in hope / Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.
Title:
Kin : rooted in hope / Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.
ISBN:
9781665913621
Personal Author:
Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023]

©2023
Physical Description:
202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Awards Note:
Honor book for the Coretta Scott King Award (Author, 2024)
Summary:
"A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities." -- Publisher.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7 3 520908.
Geographic Term:
Maryland -- History -- Poetry.
Subject Term:
African Americans -- Poetry

Black people--United States -- Poetry.

Slavery -- Poetry.

Race relations--United States -- Poetry.

Generations -- Poetry.
Genre:
Novels in verse

Historical fiction
Added Author:
Weatherford, Jeffery Boston
Interest age level:
Ages 9 to 12. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
OCLC Number:
on1370009634
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