PEMBA'S SONG: A Ghost Story.
by Nelson, Marilyn and Tonya C. HegamIn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 054502076X
- ISBN 13
- 9780545020763
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Scholastic,, (2008). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First edition. The first collaboration between these two authors - Nelson (who wrote her earlier books under the name Waniek) is an award-winning poet and children's writer. The story of a 14 year old girl who moves from Brooklyn to "nowhere" Connecticut, but then has paranormal experiences which draw her into the life of a mulatto slave girl - Phyllys - who was murdered in that house. Much of this book is based on the history of Colchester, Connecticut - and Abraham Hajj, a history buff who lives there, appears in the book as a researcher who encourages Pemba to find out the truth. 129 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73084
- Title
- PEMBA'S SONG: A Ghost Story.
- Author
- Nelson, Marilyn and Tonya C. HegamIn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 054502076X
- ISBN 13
- 9780545020763
- Publisher
- Scholastic,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2008)
- Keywords
- young adult, slavery, poetry, ghost, visions, connecticut setting,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Children's books;
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