Kindred coming of age who overcame racial discrimination to

who overcame racial discrimination to become an international entertainer and civil rights activist

• NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts

with her signature collage-style artwork

Lexile level:  980L

She's pregnant

Kindred coming of age who overcame racial discrimination toDana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or