Currents Browse by Subject_Nursery Rhymes & Songs Chapters open with an illustration

Chapters open with an illustration and an imagined scene written in the present tense–-a device the author has used to bring readers directly into Lady Dai’s world

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Eating all the insects their parents can bring them

Currents Browse by Subject_Nursery Rhymes & Songs Chapters open with an illustrationBy: Jane Petrlik Smolik Illustrations by: Chad Gowey I figure happiness is three things someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to. Bones Brewster is an eleven year old slave on a Virginia plantation. Old Mistress doesnt make life easy when she discovers that Bones has learned to read. When Bones finds her real name in the owners slave registry, she tears it out, places it in a bottle, and sets it afloat on the James River. The