![]() ![]() The protagonist is a girl living in the slave quarters with her siblings and mother. The titular phrase appears three times: first to build suspense, then to indicate the earthshaking import of the message spreading from the port, and, finally, to reflect on the consequences. ![]() ![]() Spare text, structured as free verse, hones in on the smell of honeysuckle and breakfast routines as the day begins, like any other. Johnson imagines what it would be like to be a slave one minute and a free person the next. & S., 1997) and Carole Boston Weatherford's Juneteenth Jamboree (Lee & Low, 1995) fall into that category. Gr 3 Up-Previous picture books about Juneteenth (the holiday celebrating the day slaves were freed in Texas-two years after the rest of the country) have focused on contemporary children discovering this quirk of history. ![]()
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