Black Cloud Rising Juvenile Nonfiction Gardening Health & Daily Living - Diet & Nutrition Health & Daily Living - Daily Activities When Ava’s mother

When Ava’s mother

to be mindful

As Delphine hears about her family history

reverent tribute to Harriet Tubman

one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister

Black Cloud Rising Juvenile Nonfiction Gardening Health & Daily Living - Diet & Nutrition Health & Daily Living - Daily Activities When Ava’s motherAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom. By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but