My Home Is Over Jordan: Sequel to "Sound the Jubilee"

I pick this out at a school librairy is tite My Home Is OverJordan, and is about when the civil War is over April 9, 1865.And Maddie Henry and her family can finally begin to build aHome of their own. But for her life in their North Carolina town Is not easy.

My daughter read Sound the Jubilee (this book is the sequel to Jubilee) for required summer reading. She enjoyed that book so much, we ordered this one. She did not devour it as quickly, but still enjoyed it. Living in the South, I like for her to read books where she learns more of our illustrious (or not so illustrious)heritage.

It is 1865; the Civil War is over. 15-year-old Maddie Henry and her family are free. But freedom has cost them dearly. Maddie's beloved Papa gave his life in the war; the family must fend for themselves for the first time in their lives. Maddie and her family leave their wartime refuge on Roanoke Island and buy a farm in a rural North Carolina town. But they are not welcome; the town's bitter white residents, having lost much in the war, despise them; life is hard without Papa, and the schoolteacher to the former slaves' children is run out of town. Maddie and her family adopt Tibby, a racially mixed child whose parents were a master and a slave. Tibby gradually begins to trust again after having witnessed the fire that took her mother's life. But then Maddie is torn between Tibby and her dream to go to college in the North. Maddie can't bear to leave Tibby, knowing the sorrow it would cause the child, yet Maddie has her dreams, too. How will she choose what path to take?