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Stroud, Bettye

The Leaving

32 pp. | Cavendish | March, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-7614-5067-X $$15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Cedric Lucas. Five years after emancipation, Little Bit and her family are still enslaved. Nine-year-old Little Bit narrates this story of their dangerous escape to freedom. Understated illustrations in pastels enhance the history revealed in the story, but the text is overlong and sometimes difficult to read against the dark artwork.
Reviewer: Deborah L. Thompson

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