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Book Detail
Borning Room, The |
Publication Information
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Author: Fleischman, Paul |
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Title: Borning Room, The |
Date: 1991 |
Publisher: Harper |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: |
ISBN, hardback: 0-06-447099-7 |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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Young Adult:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
fiction, historical fiction, memoirs/reminiscences
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
The narrator remembers growing up in southern Ohio in the 19th century, remembers farm life, celebrates her relatives with their varying ideas about slavery and religion, remembers her part in hiding slaves. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This 101-page book could be used with any of the Underground Railroad books in this collection. It also may be part of a unit on Ohio; see the Ohio History Matrix for additional titles. The details, language, and people are lovingly created and may invoke good creative writing among students. The rural setting may also provide teachers with good teaching possibilities. Teachers may want to work with the old-fashioned vocabulary, comparing dialects and regional differences in language, or may want to discuss various ways people throughout history have interpreted the Bible. |
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