![]() Dimensions: 6.60in - 4.10in - 0.40in - 0."To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. ![]() That's why they don't want us reading." - Nightjohn We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. "I didn't know what letters was, not what they meant, but I thought it might be something I wanted to know. Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back-came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery to teach others how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn. Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen's groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author has written. ![]()
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