Hope's Gift Juvenile Nonfiction Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists Biography & Autobiography - Women Juvenile Fiction African American & Black Somadina now faces blatant--and dangerous--hostility

Somadina now faces blatant--and dangerous--hostility

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Hope's Gift Juvenile Nonfiction Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists Biography & Autobiography - Women Juvenile Fiction African American & Black Somadina now faces blatant--and dangerous--hostilityA poignant story celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Its 1862 and the Civil War has turned out to be a long, deadly conflict. Hopes father cant stand the waiting a minute longer and decides to join the Union army to fight for freedom. He slips away one tearful night, leaving Hope, who knows she may never see her father again, with only a conch shell for comfort. Its sound, Papa says, echoes the promised song of freedom.