Way up and over Everything Hardcover - 2008
by McGill, Alice
- Used
So begins this account of the author’s great-great-grandmother Jane, and how she meets a slave new to the plantation, a slave who would prove to have magical powers . . . created by the wish for freedom. Alice McGill remembers this story, passed down in her family through the generations, from her childhood and how her greatgrandmother told it to her “as if unveiling a great, wonderful secret. My siblings and I believed that certain Africans shared this gift of taking to the air—‘way up and over everything.’”
Description
Details
- Title Way up and over Everything
- Author McGill, Alice
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, Boston MA
- Date 2008-03-21
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP102281032
- ISBN 9780618387960 / 061838796X
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 10.25 x 0.39 in (22.86 x 26.04 x 0.99 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 660
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Slavery
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003019384
- Dewey Decimal Code E
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Summary
So begins this account of the author’s great-great-grandmother Jane, and how she meets a slave new to the plantation, a slave who would prove to have magical powers . . . created by the wish for freedom. Alice McGill remembers this story, passed down in her family through the generations, from her childhood and how her greatgrandmother told it to her “as if unveiling a great, wonderful secret. My siblings and I believed that certain Africans shared this gift of taking to the air—‘way up and over everything.’”
