Book
Dream country
Audience Teens 14-17 years
Published [2018] by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, NY
ISBN 9780735231672
Bib Id 983500
Description 335 pages ; 22 cm
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cam a22 i 4500
LCCN
2017-055923
ISBN
9780735231672 (hardcover) $18.00
0735231672
9780735231689 (paperback) $11.00
0735231680
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YA Gibney
Title
Dream country
Publication Information
[2018] by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, NY :
Description
335 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
2008, Minneapolis. Kollie Flomo, at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community, turns to violence. 1926, Liberia. Togar Somah, an indigenous Liberian, is on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. 1827. The children of Yasmine Wright leave a Virginia plantation with their mother for Liberia, promised freedom by the American Colonization Society. 1980. Ujay and Evelyn dare to believe their love can survive Liberia's approaching revolution. 2018, Minneapolis. A dreamer attempts to weave her family's history into a new future.-- adapted from jacket.
Genre/Form
Young adult fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction
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