Ellen's broom / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.
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TextPublication details: New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012 Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN: - 9780399250033 (hardback)
- 0399250034 (hardback)
- Marriage -- Juvenile fiction
- Brooms and brushes -- Juvenile fiction
- Slavery -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- Juvenile fiction
- African American families -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- [E] 23
- PZ7.L995545 Ell 2012
- Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 2013
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"Design by Ryan Thomann"--t.p. verso.
Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.
Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 2013