Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town
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Picture Book · Ages 4–8 · 2019

Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town

Written by A. LaFaye · Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

A family seeks freedom and a new life on the Kansas frontier.

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32 pages· 780L
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Bookroo's summary

Dede's family leaves behind the oppressive life of sharecropping when they discover an opportunity for land in Kansas. Inspired by the true story of Nicodemus, this journey follows their quest for freedom and a home of their own. As they navigate the challenges of homesteading, will they find the new beginning they desperately seek?

From the publisher

When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers.Inspired by the true story of Nicodemus, Kansas, a town founded in the late 1870s by Exodusters—former slaves leaving the Jim Crow South in search of a new beginning— this fictional story follows Dede and her parents as they set out to stake and secure a claim, finally allowing them to have a home to call their own.

At a glance
Format
Hardcover
Pages
32
Reading age
4–8
Audience
Picture
Lexile
780L
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
~5
F&P level
~S
Publication
Published
January 1, 2019
Publisher
Albert Whitman Co
Edition
Language
English
Type
Picture Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780807525357
LCCN
2018018106

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