![]() Mike Bennys illustrations have appeared in Time, GQ, and The New Yorker magazines. ![]() Gloria Whelans other titles in the Tales of Young Americans series include Friend on Freedom River (Jefferson Cup honor book) and Mackinac Bridge: The Story of the Five-Mile Poem (2007 Michigan Notable Book). And when the promise of freedom appears on the horizon, the children are the first to hear it. They had no control over their daily lives or futures. Who will be sold? Who will stay? The lives of slaves depended on the inclinations of their owners. The children listen in the hopes of gleaning information about their fates and those of their loved ones. Each night Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their masters house. Its dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. ![]() Book Synopsis Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesnt live in the great house. Each night, Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their masters house in the hopes of gleaning information about their fates and those of their loved ones. About the Book Ella May is a slave on a Southern plantation. ![]()
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