Book
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
- Published
- 2005
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 177
- Words
- 25393
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.8
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
In a novel told through multiple voices and dialogue, Julius Lester dramatizes the 1859 sale of more than four hundred enslaved people in Savannah, following Emma, the Butler family, and others through the auction known as the Weeping Time and its aftermath.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780786804900
- ISBN-10
- 0786804904
Tags
ALSC NotablesHistorical FictionHistory-SlaveryPeople-African AmericanPeople-Enslaved PeopleRealistic FictionSocial Issues-Social InequalityUnited States-Georgia