Dream country

Title
Dream country

Author
Gibney, Shannon author.

ISBN
9780735231672

Physical Description
335 pages ; 22 cm.

General Note
Includes reading group guide.

Reading Level
900 L Lexile

Subject Term
Families -- Liberia -- Fiction.
 
Families -- Minnesota -- Fiction.
 
Slavery -- Fiction.
 
Refugees -- Fiction.
 
Liberian Americans -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.
 
Americans -- Liberia -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Fiction.
 
Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Fiction.
 
Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.

Summary
2008, Minneapolis. Kollie Flomo, at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community, turns to violence. 1926, Liberia. Togar Somah, an indigenous Liberian, is on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. 1827. The children of Yasmine Wright leave a Virginia plantation with their mother for Liberia, promised freedom by the American Colonization Society. 1980. Ujay and Evelyn dare to believe their love can survive Liberia's approaching revolution. 2018, Minneapolis. A dreamer attempts to weave her family's history into a new future.--


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Bayport Public LibraryTEEN FICTION GIBTeen Fiction
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)TEEN FICTION GIBTeen Fiction
Oakdale LibraryTEEN FICTION GIBTeen Fiction
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)TEEN FICTION GIBTeen Fiction
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)TEEN FICTION GIBTeen Fiction
Stillwater Public LibraryTEEN FICTION GIBTeen Fiction