Award-Winning Middle Grade Author Jewell Parker Rhodes “Will’s Race for Home”

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Tue, 14 Jan, 2025 at 06:30 pm

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St. Louis County Library | Frontenac, MO

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Coretta Scott King Award Recipient and acclaimed middle grade author, Jewell Parker Rhodes goes West in this thrilling adventure story. It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land they don’t get to own. So when Will and his father hear about the upcoming Oklahoma Land Rush, they set out on a harrowing journey. Will’s family is propelled by the promise of something long denied to them: freedom, land ownership, and a place to call home—but is a strong will enough to get them there?
In conversation with Julius Anthony, president of St. Louis Black Authors of Children’s Literature and founder of The Believe Project
Books available from The Novel Neighbor.
Part of St. Louis County Library's 2025 Black History Celebration.
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