Stone River Crossing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781620148235)

From the award-winning author of How I Became a Ghost, a tale of unlikely friendship and miracles. When Martha Tom helps Lil Mo and his family escape from the plantation across the river, it's just the beginning of a Choctaw adventure of a lifetime.

Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. Then Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest of his family left behind. But Martha Tom has the answer: cross the Bok Chitto and become free.

Crossing to freedom with his family seems impossible with slave catchers roaming, but then there is a miracle--a magical night where things become unseen and souls walk on water. By morning, Lil Mo discovers he has entered a completely new world of tradition, community, and ... a little magic. But as Lil Mo's family adjusts to their new life, danger waits just around the corner.

In an expansion of his award-winning picture book Crossing Bok Chitto, acclaimed Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle offers a story that reminds readers that the strongest bridge between cultures is friendship.

Author: Tim Tingle
ISBN-10: 1620148234
ISBN-13: 9781620148235
Publisher: Tu Books
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2019
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 510733 / Stone River Crossing


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/08/2019
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2019 pg. 136
Booklist 05/15/2019 pg. 57
School Library Journal 06/14/2019 pg. 1
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2019 pg. 139
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average