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This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History Hardcover - 2006
by Lester, Julius
- New
- Hardcover
'The horror of slavery . . . the excitement and terror of escape and theproblems of the newly free are dramatized in three stories based on actualhistorical incidents. . . . Memorable.' School Library Journal
'Lester here personalizes and vitalizes the essence of freedom.' Booklist
In two short stories and one novella, Julius Lester has created a rich,layered, and ringing portrait of the slave experience in America, and of theperseverance and bravery it took to seek out love and freedom during thattime. Included is the tale of Ellen and William Craft, the escaped slaveswho became famous abolitionists. And new for this edition, in honorof the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, is a thought-provoking author'spreface about freedom and empathy. This Strange NewFeeling is historical fiction at its finest.
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- Title This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History
- Author Lester, Julius
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First printing
- Condition New
- Pages 193
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dial, New York
- Date 2006-12-28
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0803731728
- ISBN 9780803731721 / 0803731728
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.86 x 0.88 in (21.74 x 14.88 x 2.24 cm)
- Ages 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 840
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, African Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007273570
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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