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Angels watching over me Cover Image Large Print Book

Angels watching over me [large print] / Michael Phillips.

Phillips, Michael R., 1946- (Author).

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Mary Ann "Mayme" Jukes is a young African-American slave girl living in Shenandoah County, in North Carolina, in the 1860s. When marauding outlaw Confederate soldiers kill her family, she escapes to Rosewood, another plantation owned by the white family of Kathleen "Katie" Clairborne. Here, Mayme finds more devastation; 15-year-old Katie is the only person left alive. The girls become friends and together vow to run the plantation and keep the adults' deaths a secret until Katie comes of legal age to own the debt-ridden property.

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  • ISBN: 1585474908
  • ISBN: 9781585474905
  • Physical Description: 270 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Center Point large print edition
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2004.

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Clairborne, Kathleen (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Jukes, Mary Ann (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Plantation life > Fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
Women's friendships.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.
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Large print books.
Historical fiction.
Christian fiction.
War fiction.

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