My Home Is over Jordan

By Sandra Forrester

Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), African Americans, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, general, Prejudices, Southern states, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.