Alec's primer

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Alec's primer

Title:

Alec's primer

Author:

Walter, Mildred Pitts.

Personal Author:

Walter, Mildred Pitts.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

Middlebury, Vt. : Vermont Folklife Center ; Lebanon, N.H. : Distributed by University Press of New England, [2004]

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.

Series:

The Vermont Folklife Center children's book series

Vermont Folklife Center children's book series.

Summary:

A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.

General Note:

"A Vermont Folklife Center book"--Cover.

Language:

English

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.4 0.5 126615.

Subject Term:

Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Reading -- Juvenile fiction.

Added Author:

Johnson, Larry, 1949-