Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses

by Harriette Gillem Robinet

Book Overview

From the Scott O'Dell Award-winning author of Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule comes an exciting look at a remarkable turning point in U.S. history, told from the African-American point of view. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689845618
• ISBN13: 9780689845611
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9

Customer Reviews

Good Historical Book

Take a step back from books that have bad words or relate to bad things. Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses is a wonderful historical book and I'm proud to say it has only one very slight bad word, thats all! Jacob Israel Christmas, the main character, reunites with his mother and nine others of his closet friends and some new friends, too as they are sold to the wealthy man named The Honorable Mister Clarance Higginboom. See how a weathly man, who doesn't know the first thing about buying and having slaves around, treats the people as the prepare and go on a bumpy ride to the great state of California. + See if the election results get to California. + Can they make it to California without being looted by Indians or outlaws? + Find out what MAJOR event happens to the slaves that can affect the rest of their life. Their master has a wife who is pregnant when this journey begins. See how see makes it with their new children and a long lost relative they find along the way. Harriette Robinet, I have no complaints to you! You wrote a wonderful, clean, easy reading novel. To happy reading! I hope all of you enjoy(ed) this book as much as I did!NOTE: I enjoy how Honorable Mister Clarance Higginboom calls his slaves MEN AND WOMEN OF LABOR.