Journey to a Promised Land

By Allison Lassieur

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Hattie Jacobs has a secret dream: to go to school to become a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee, after Reconstruction. When the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas, their journey in search of a better life is filled with danger and hardship. Will they make it to the Mississippi River unharmed? What will be waiting for them in Kansas, and will it live up to their dreams?

It’s the storytellers that preserve a nation’s history. But what happens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series features fictional stories based on important historical events about people whose voices have been excluded, lost, or forgotten over time.

About the Author

Allison Lassieur once lived in Tennessee and traveled the path Hattie and her family might have followed from Nashville to the banks of the Mississippi River near Memphis. Today she lives in upstate New York and shares a 110-year-old house with her husband, her daughter, three dogs, two cats, and more history books than she can count.

  • Ebook ISBN: 9781631632778
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9781631632754
  • Paperback ISBN: 9781631632761
  • Reading Age: from 8 to 12 years
  • Interest Age: from 8 to 12 years
  • Hardcover dimensions: 5 x 7.5 in
  • Paperback dimensions: 5 x 7.5 in
  • Publication date: Jan 01, 2019
  • Rights/Sales territory: Worldwide
  • Format: Paperback | Hardcover | Ebook
  • Pages: 160
  • Lexile: 780L
  • Series: I Am America
  • Imprint: Jolly Fish Press
  • Subjects:
    JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century
    JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
    JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism

Reviews of Journey to a Promised Land:

"This well-written volume fills a major gap in historical fiction." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Awards received by Journey to a Promised Land:

2020 Kansas Notable Book

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