The Bell Rang
Author:
James E. Ransome
Illustrator:
James E. Ransome
Publication:
2019 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Picture Books
Pages:
40
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Every day,
the plantation master rings the bell.
Every day,
Daddy gathers wood.
Mama cooks.
Brother Ben and the other slave go
out to the fields.
Every day...
Until one day, the bell rings, and Ben
is gone.
Ben ran.
Coretta Scott King Award-winner James E. Ransome layers history and the beauty of possibility in this searing, soaring story about a young girl torn between wanting her brother back and wanting him to be free.
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AmericanJames E. Ransome is the illustrator of many children's books, including The Creation, which won the Coretta Scott King award for illustrat... See more
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