Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World by Lowinger, Kathy

Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World

Changing minds one song at a time. The 1800s were a dangerous time to be a black...
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Author: Kathy Lowinger
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Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World by Lowinger, Kathy

Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World

BD$33.11

Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World

BD$33.11
Author: Kathy Lowinger
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Changing minds one song at a time. The 1800s were a dangerous time to be a black girl in the United States, especially if you were born a slave. Ella Sheppard was such a girl, but her family bought their freedom and moved to Ohio where slavery was illegal; they even scraped enough money together to send Ella to school and buy her a piano. In 1871, when her school ran out of money and was on the brink of closure, Ella became a founding member of a traveling choir, the Jubilee Singers, to help raise funds for the Fisk Free Colored School, later known as Fisk University. Framed within Ella's inspiring story, Give Me Wings is narrative nonfiction at its finest, taking readers through one of history's most tumultuous and dramatic times, touching on the Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction Era.

Author: Kathy Lowinger
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 08/07/2015
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781554517473
Audience: Ages 9-12


Award: Cybils - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2015
Quill & Quire 07/01/2015 pg. 48
School Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 128

About the Author

Kathy Lowinger's first book with Annick Press was "Shifting Sands" (Spring 2014). The former publisher of Tundra Books, she lives in Toronto.

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