Promises to the Dead
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Mary Downing Hahn combines powerful characters, dark secrets, and breathtaking suspense in a compelling Civil War-era story readers won't soon forget. Aiding and abetting an escaped slave is against the law, and it goes against everything Jesse Sherman has been taught. But he has promised a dying runaway slave that he will take her seven-year-old son, Perry, to safety in Baltimore. He can't break a promise made to the dead, no matter what the risks. More important, he must follow what he knows to be true in his heart. When the journey turns out to be far more difficult and dangerous than he anticipated, and he loses Perry on the riot-torn streets of Baltimore, Jesse comes face to face with the worst humanity has to offer. But he also witnesses examples of love, compassion, and courage unlike anything he's experienced before. AUTHOR'S NOTE.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780395963944 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Imprint: | Clarion |
Pub date: | 17 Apr 2000 |
DEWEY: | [Fic] |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 208 |
Weight: | 386g |
Height: | 197mm |
Width: | 127mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |