Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters

by Allison Lassieur

Book Overview

Hattie Jacobs has a secret dream: to go to school to become a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee, after Reconstruction. When the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas, their journey in search of a better life is filled with danger and hardship. Will they make it to the Mississippi River unharmed? What will be waiting for them in Kansas, and will it live up to their...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631632752
• ISBN13: 9781631632754
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Jolly Fish Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7