Hope's Gift Cover:Hardcover arcane adventure that mixes Saturday

arcane adventure that mixes Saturday morning cartoon thrills with supernatural chills

• 2024 Children's Africana Book Award commendation

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Hope's Gift Cover:Hardcover arcane adventure that mixes SaturdayA poignant story celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Its 1862 and the Civil War has turned out to be a long, deadly conflict. Hopes father cant stand the waiting a minute longer and decides to join the Union army to fight for freedom. He slips away one tearful night, leaving Hope, who knows she may never see her father again, with only a conch shell for comfort. Its sound, Papa says, echoes the promised song of freedom.