The Resource Passing by Samaria, Sharon Ewell Foster
Passing by Samaria, Sharon Ewell Foster
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- Summary
- Eighteen-year-old African-American Alena's sheltered life on her parent's Mississippi farm has not prepared her for the truth about racism, but a shocking discovery leads her to leave her home in 1919 and travel to Chicago in search of answers and justice
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Passing by Samaria
- Title
- Passing by Samaria
- Statement of responsibility
- Sharon Ewell Foster
- Subject
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- African American women -- Fiction
- African American women -- Illinois | Chicago -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- trueChicago, Illinois
- Christian fiction
- Christian fiction
- trueChristian historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAfrican American women
- trueInnocence (Psychology)
- trueLynching
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMississippi
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- trueMoving to a new state
- trueMurder witnesses
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Eighteen-year-old African-American Alena's sheltered life on her parent's Mississippi farm has not prepared her for the truth about racism, but a shocking discovery leads her to leave her home in 1919 and travel to Chicago in search of answers and justice
- Summary
- Alena, a young African American woman living in rural Mississippi in 1919, is contented with her life until a dreadful discovery forces her to move to Chicago, where she must face racial unrest, social changes, and challenges to her Christian faith
- Award
- Christy Award for First Novel Category, 2001.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 068692
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Citation source
-
- Library Journal
- Booklist starred
- Christian Library
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Foster, Sharon Ewell
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- Young Adult
- LC call number
- PS3556.O7724
- LC item number
- P37 2000
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American women
- African Americans
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Mississippi
- African American women
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Passing by Samaria, Sharon Ewell Foster
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 13951132
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 382 pages
- Isbn
- 9781576736159
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99053211
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (InCu)1D398266D18F11D684F400E018312359
- (IMchF)fol05652375
- Label
- Passing by Samaria, Sharon Ewell Foster
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 13951132
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 382 pages
- Isbn
- 9781576736159
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99053211
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (InCu)1D398266D18F11D684F400E018312359
- (IMchF)fol05652375
Subject
- African American women -- Fiction
- African American women -- Illinois | Chicago -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- trueChicago, Illinois
- Christian fiction
- Christian fiction
- trueChristian historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAfrican American women
- trueInnocence (Psychology)
- trueLynching
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMississippi
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- trueMoving to a new state
- trueMurder witnesses
Genre
- trueChristian fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueChristian historical fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
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