Nightjohn
by:
Gary Paulsen (author)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440910145 (0440910145)
Publish date: September 1st 1994
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Series: Sarny (#1)
Sarny is a 12 year old slave girl and this slim volume tells about the moment her life was forever changed by the arrival of a new slave named John. John offers to teach Sarny letters of the alphabet in exchange for tobacco. Sarny knows little of reading and writing, but knows it must be powerful ...