The Resource Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen
Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen
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The item Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, Nightjohn still retumed to slavery to teach others how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn. Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen's groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author has written. It is a meticulously researched, historically accurate, and artistically crafted portrayal of a grim time in our nation's past, brought to light through the personal history of two unforgettable characters
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Nightjohn
- Title
- Nightjohn
- Statement of responsibility
- Gary Paulsen
- Title variation
- Night John
- Subject
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- trueEnslaved children
- trueEnslaved girls
- Fiction
- trueGirl slaves
- trueGirls
- Historical fiction
- trueHistory
- History
- Juvenile works
- Reading
- trueReading
- Reading -- Fiction
- Reading -- Juvenile fiction
- Slavery
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Juvenile fiction
- Slavery -- Southern States
- trueSouthern States
- trueTwelve-year-old girls
- trueTwelve-year-old girls -- Southern States
- Young adult fiction
- trueAfrican American children
- African American girls
- trueBooks and reading
- trueCruelty
- trueCruelty -- Southern States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, Nightjohn still retumed to slavery to teach others how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn. Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen's groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author has written. It is a meticulously researched, historically accurate, and artistically crafted portrayal of a grim time in our nation's past, brought to light through the personal history of two unforgettable characters
- Award
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- Young Hoosier Book Award, Middle Books, 1997.
- ALA Notable Children's Book, 1994
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 079994
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-2021
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Paulsen, Gary
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- MG
- LC call number
- PS3566.A834
- LC item number
- N55 1993
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 6
- 12
- Reading level
- 3.8
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Reading
- Slavery
- Slavery
- Reading
- Reading
- Slavery
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 211194
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 92 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385308380
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 92001222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780385308380
- (OCoLC)25316274
- Label
- Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 211194
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 92 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385308380
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 92001222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780385308380
- (OCoLC)25316274
Subject
- trueEnslaved children
- trueEnslaved girls
- Fiction
- trueGirl slaves
- trueGirls
- Historical fiction
- trueHistory
- History
- Juvenile works
- Reading
- trueReading
- Reading -- Fiction
- Reading -- Juvenile fiction
- Slavery
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Juvenile fiction
- Slavery -- Southern States
- trueSouthern States
- trueTwelve-year-old girls
- trueTwelve-year-old girls -- Southern States
- Young adult fiction
- trueAfrican American children
- African American girls
- trueBooks and reading
- trueCruelty
- trueCruelty -- Southern States
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