Numbering All the Bones | 
pickThis is a story of a thirteen year old house slave trying to figure out who she is at the end of the war. Rinaldi really does her homework in all of her books and she writes so beautifully. It was a great book.
pickThis is a story of a thirteen year old house slave trying to figure out who she is at the end of the war. Rinaldi really does her homework in all of her books and she writes so beautifully. It was a great book.
While 13-year-old Eulinda learns to fend for herself after the Civil War, her master refuses to acknowledge her as his daughter. "Yesterday on the way home from the stationer's in Washington City, I saw the ring in a pawnshop. My brother Neddy's ring. Sitting there . . . all ready for some woman's hand. As if it never had been buried in a grave. As if nobody was ever sold away because of it." #childprotagonists #photoadaynov16 #day16 #quote
FIRST LINES: "Yesterday on the way home from the stationer's in Washington City, I saw the ring in a pawnshop. My brother Neddy's ring. Sitting there . . . all ready for some woman's hand. As if it never had been buried in a grave. As if nobody was ever sold away because of it."
