01495cam a2200289 4500 1276920444 TxAuBib 20240521120000.0 990820s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780440219736 $7.50 Can. $4.99 0440219736 $7.50 Can. $4.99 (OCoLC)42200805 TxAuBib Paulsen, Gary. Sarny, a life remembered / Gary Paulsen. New York, N.Y. : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1999. 180 p. ; 18 cm. Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1997. "Laurel-leaf books.". Sequel to: Nightjohn. Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four. In this companion novel to the acclaimed "Nightjohn, " Sammy, the young slave girl who learned to read in "Nightjohn, " is now a young widow. She flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Sarny's story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of tragedy, trial, and hoped-for change, until her last days in the 1930s. 4.3. 20240521. Slavery Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Paperbacks.