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Rent Nightjohn
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
Published: Jan 1995
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Ages: 12 - 17 Pages: 112
Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Sarny first meets Nightjohn when he is brought to the Waller plantation. He had escaped to the north to freedom, but had returned to teach other slaves to read, even though the punishment for reading was dismemberment. Sarny is willing to take that risk as Nightjohn teaches her to read.