Awards and HonorsCCBC Choices 2019 Choice: Fiction for Young Adults
CSMCL Best Books - 2018
2018 Children’s History Book Prize finalist Kirkus Best Books, Middle-Grade - 2018
NYPL Best Books for Kids - 2018 School Library Journal Best Books - 2018 Horn Book Fanfare - 2018
1854: twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck, his sharecropper father just died and Cap'n Buck—the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina—has come to collect a debt. Author’s note.
Topics Sharecroppers. Children of sharecroppers. South Carolina. Fugitive slaves. African Americans. Plantation owners. Slavery. Race relations. History of South Carolina, 1775–1865. Nineteenth-century US history.
SRC Level 7.500000
SRC Points 13.000000
Lexile 960L
Trim Size 6" x 9"
JLG Span Spring
Language English
Publication date 2018-01-31
JLG Release Date Apr 2018
Minimum grade 5
Maximum grade 7
Reading level Elementary, Middle
Format Print
Upper Elementary/Middle Plus (Grades 5-7)
Upper Elementary/Middle Plus
Upper Elementary/Middle Plus (Grades 5-7)
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